Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Sunday May 9, 2021 |
Evening Time: 2:31 PM PST
"Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field . . . let us see if the
vine flourish." --Song of Solomon 7:11,12
The church was about to engage in earnest labour, and desired her Lord's
company in it. She does not say, "I will go," but "let us go." It is blessed
working when Jesus is at our side! It is the business of God's people to be
trimmers of God's vines. Like our first parents, we are put into the garden of
the Lord for usefulness; let us therefore go forth into the field. Observe that
the church, when she is in her right mind, in all her many labours desires to
enjoy communion with Christ. Some imagine that they cannot serve Christ
actively, and yet have fellowship with Him: they are mistaken. Doubtless it is
very easy to fritter away our inward life in outward exercises, and come to
complain with the spouse, "They made me keeper of the vineyards; but mine own
vineyard have I not kept:" but there is no reason why this should be the case
except our own folly and neglect. Certain is it that a professor may do nothing,
and yet grow quite as lifeless in spiritual things as those who are most busy.
Mary was not praised for sitting still; but for her sitting at Jesus'
feet. Even so, Christians are not to be praised for neglecting duties under
the pretence of having secret fellowship with Jesus: it is not sitting, but
sitting at Jesus' feet which is commendable. Do not think that activity is in
itself an evil: it is a great blessing, and a means of grace to us. Paul called
it a grace given to him to be allowed to preach; and every form of Christian
service may become a personal blessing to those engaged in it. Those who have
most fellowship with Christ are not recluses or hermits, who have much time to
spare, but indefatigable labourers who are toiling for Jesus, and who, in their
toil, have Him side by side with them, so that they are workers together with
God. Let us remember then, in anything we have to do for Jesus, that we can do
it, and should do it in close communion with Him.
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