Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Sunday December 16, 2018 |
Evening Time: 12:36 PM PST
"Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that
thine ear was not opened." --Isaiah 48:8
It is painful to remember that, in a certain degree, this accusation may be
laid at the door of believers, who too often are in a measure
spiritually insensible. We may well bewail ourselves that we do
not hear the voice of God as we ought, "Yea, thou heardest not." There are
gentle motions of the Holy Spirit in the soul which are unheeded by us: there
are whisperings of divine command and of heavenly love which are alike
unobserved by our leaden intellects. Alas! we have been carelessly
ignorant--"Yea, thou knewest not." There are matters within which we ought
to have seen, corruptions which have made headway unnoticed; sweet affections
which are being blighted like flowers in the frost, untended by us; glimpses of
the divine face which might be perceived if we did not wall up the windows of
our soul. But we "have not known." As we think of it we are humbled in the
deepest self-abasement. How must we adore the grace of God as we learn from the
context that all this folly and ignorance, on our part, was foreknown by
God, and, notwithstanding that foreknowledge, He yet has been pleased to
deal with us in a way of mercy! Admire the marvellous sovereign grace which
could have chosen us in the sight of all this! Wonder at the price that was paid
for us when Christ knew what we should be! He who hung upon the cross foresaw us
as unbelieving, backsliding, cold of heart, indifferent, careless, lax in
prayer, and yet He said, "I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy
Saviour . . . Since thou wast precious in My sight, thou hast been honourable,
and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy
life"! O redemption, how wondrously resplendent dost thou shine when we think
how black we are! O Holy Spirit, give us henceforth the hearing ear, the
understanding heart!
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