Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Sunday October 6, 2019 |
Evening Time: 4:28 PM PST
"He had married an Ethiopian woman." --Numbers 12:1
Strange choice of Moses, but how much more strange the choice of Him who is a
prophet like unto Moses, and greater than he! Our Lord, who is fair as the lily,
has entered into marriage union with one who confesses herself to be black,
because the sun has looked upon her. It is the wonder of angels that the love of
Jesus should be set upon poor, lost, guilty men. Each believer must, when filled
with a sense of Jesus' love, be also overwhelmed with astonishment that such
love should be lavished on an object so utterly unworthy of it. Knowing as we do
our secret guiltiness, unfaithfulness, and black-heartedness, we are dissolved
in grateful admiration of the matchless freeness and sovereignty of grace. Jesus
must have found the cause of His love in His own heart, He could not have found
it in us, for it is not there. Even since our conversion we have been black,
though grace has made us comely. Holy Rutherford said of himself what we must
each subscribe to--"His relation to me is, that I am sick, and He is the
Physician of whom I stand in need. Alas! how often I play fast and loose with
Christ! He bindeth, I loose; He buildeth, I cast down; I quarrel with Christ,
and He agreeth with me twenty times a day!" Most tender and faithful Husband of
our souls, pursue Thy gracious work of conforming us to Thine image, till Thou
shalt present even us poor Ethiops unto Thyself, without spot, or wrinkle, or
any such thing. Moses met with opposition because of his marriage, and both
himself and his spouse were the subjects of an evil eye. Can we wonder if this
vain world opposes Jesus and His spouse, and especially when great sinners are
converted? for this is ever the Pharisee's ground of objection, "This man
receiveth sinners." Still is the old cause of quarrel revived, "Because he had
married an Ethiopian woman."
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