Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Saturday May 8, 2021 |
Morning Time: 5:03 AM PST
"She that was healed wist not who it was." --1 John 5:13
Years are short to the happy and healthy; but thirty-eight years of disease
must have dragged a very weary length along the life of the poor impotent man.
When Jesus, therefore, healed him by a word, while he lay at the pool of
Bethesda, he was delightfully sensible of a change. Even so the sinner
who has for weeks and months been paralyzed with despair, and has wearily sighed
for salvation, is very conscious of the change when the Lord Jesus speaks the
word of power, and gives joy and peace in believing. The evil removed is too
great to be removed without our discerning it; the life imparted is too
remarkable to be possessed and remain inoperative; and the change wrought is too
marvellous not to be perceived. Yet the poor man was ignorant of the
author of his cure; he knew not the sacredness of His person, the offices
which he sustained, or the errand which brought Him among men. Much ignorance of
Jesus may remain in hearts which yet feel the power of His blood. We must not
hastily condemn men for lack of knowledge; but where we can see the faith which
saves the soul, we must believe that salvation has been bestowed. The Holy
Spirit makes men penitents long before He makes them divines; and he who
believes what he knows, shall soon know more clearly what he believes. Ignorance
is, however, an evil; for this poor man was much tantalized by the
Pharisees, and was quite unable to cope with them. It is good to be able to
answer gainsayers; but we cannot do so if we know not the Lord Jesus clearly and
with understanding. The cure of his ignorance, however, soon followed the cure
of his infirmity, for he was visited by the Lord in the temple; and after
that gracious manifestation, he was found testifying that "it was Jesus
who had made him whole." Lord, if Thou hast saved me, show me Thyself, that I
may declare Thee to the sons of men.
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