Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Saturday June 25, 2022 |
Evening Time: 5:02 PM PST
"The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot." --Genesis 8:9
Reader, can you find rest apart from the ark, Christ Jesus? Then be assured
that your religion is vain. Are you satisfied with anything short of a conscious
knowledge of your union and interest in Christ? Then woe unto you. If you
profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and
pursuits, your profession is false. If your soul can stretch herself at rest,
and find the bed long enough, and the coverlet broad enough to cover her in the
chambers of sin, then you are a hypocrite, and far enough from any right
thoughts of Christ or perception of His preciousness. But if, on the other hand,
you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a
punishment of itself; and that if you could have the whole world, and abide in
it for ever, it would be quite enough misery not to be parted from it; for your
God--your God--is what your soul craves after; then be of good courage, thou art
a child of God. With all thy sins and imperfections, take this to thy comfort:
if thy soul has no rest in sin, thou are not as the sinner is! If thou art still
crying after and craving after something better, Christ has not forgotten thee,
for thou hast not quite forgotten Him. The believer cannot do without his Lord;
words are inadequate to express his thoughts of Him. We cannot live on the sands
of the wilderness, we want the manna which drops from on high; our skin bottles
of creature confidence cannot yield us a drop of moisture, but we drink of the
rock which follows us, and that rock is Christ. When you feed on Him your soul
can sing, "He hath satisfied my mouth with good things, so that my youth is
renewed like the eagle's," but if you have Him not, your bursting wine vat and
well-filled barn can give you no sort of satisfaction: rather lament over them
in the words of wisdom, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!"
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