Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Saturday May 1, 2021 |
Evening Time: 1:30 PM PST
"I am the rose of Sharon." --Song of Solomon 2:1
Whatever there may be of beauty in the material world, Jesus Christ possesses
all that in the spiritual world in a tenfold degree. Amongst flowers the rose is
deemed the sweetest, but Jesus is infinitely more beautiful in the garden of the
soul than the rose can in the gardens of earth. He takes the first place as the
fairest among ten thousand. He is the sun, and all others are the stars; the
heavens and the day are dark in comparison with Him, for the King in His
beauty transcends all. "I am the rose of Sharon." This was the best
and rarest of roses. Jesus is not "the rose" alone, He is "the rose of Sharon,"
just as He calls His righteousness "gold," and then adds, "the gold of
Ophir"--the best of the best. He is positively lovely, and superlatively the
loveliest. There is variety in His charms. The rose is delightful to the
eye, and its scent is pleasant and refreshing; so each of the senses of the
soul, whether it be the taste or feeling, the hearing, the sight, or the
spiritual smell, finds appropriate gratification in Jesus. Even the
recollection of His love is sweet. Take the rose of Sharon, and pull it leaf
from leaf, and lay by the leaves in the jar of memory, and you shall find each
leaf fragrant long afterwards, filling the house with perfume. Christ
satisfies the highest taste of the most educated spirit to the very full.
The greatest amateur in perfumes is quite satisfied with the rose: and when the
soul has arrived at her highest pitch of true taste, she shall still be content
with Christ, nay, she shall be the better able to appreciate Him. Heaven itself
possesses nothing which excels the rose of Sharon. What emblem can fully set
forth His beauty? Human speech and earth-born things fail to tell of Him.
Earth's choicest charms commingled, feebly picture His abounding preciousness.
Blessed rose, bloom in my heart for ever!
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