Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Friday March 31, 2017 |
Evening Time: 9:17 PM PST
"And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon
the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of
heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor
the beasts of the field by night." --2 Samuel 21:10
If the love of a woman to her slain sons could make her prolong her mournful
vigil for so long a period, shall we weary of considering the sufferings of our
blessed Lord? She drove away the birds of prey, and shall not we chase from our
meditations those worldly and sinful thoughts which defile both our minds and
the sacred themes upon which we are occupied? Away, ye birds of evil wing! Leave
ye the sacrifice alone! She bore the heats of summer, the night dews and the
rains, unsheltered and alone. Sleep was chased from her weeping eyes: her heart
was too full for slumber. Behold how she loved her children! Shall Rizpah thus
endure, and shall we start at the first little inconvenience or trial? Are we
such cowards that we cannot bear to suffer with our Lord? She chased away even
the wild beasts, with courage unusual in her sex, and will not we be ready to
encounter every foe for Jesus' sake? These her children were slain by other
hands than hers, and yet she wept and watched: what ought we to do who have by
our sins crucified our Lord? Our obligations are boundless, our love should be
fervent and our repentance thorough. To watch with Jesus should be our business,
to protect His honour our occupation, to abide by His cross our solace. Those
ghastly corpses might well have affrighted Rizpah, especially by night, but in
our Lord, at whose cross-foot we are sitting, there is nothing revolting, but
everything attractive. Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.
Jesus, we will watch with Thee yet awhile, and do Thou graciously unveil Thyself
to us; then shall we not sit beneath sackcloth, but in a royal pavilion.
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