Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Sunday September 19, 2021 |
Evening Time: 4:41 PM PST
"For this child I prayed." --1 Samuel 1:27
Devout souls delight to look upon those mercies which they have obtained in
answer to supplication, for they can see God's especial love in them. When we
can name our blessings Samuel, that is, "asked of God," they will be as dear to
us as her child was to Hannah. Peninnah had many children, but they came as
common blessings unsought in prayer: Hannah's one heaven-given child was dearer
far, because he was the fruit of earnest pleadings. How sweet was that water to
Samson which he found at "the well of him that prayed!" Quassia cups turn all
waters bitter, but the cup of prayer puts a sweetness into the draughts it
brings. Did we pray for the conversion of our children? How doubly sweet, when
they are saved, to see in them our own petitions fulfilled! Better to rejoice
over them as the fruit of our pleadings than as the fruit of our bodies. Have we
sought of the Lord some choice spiritual gift? When it comes to us it will be
wrapped up in the gold cloth of God's faithfulness and truth, and so be doubly
precious. Have we petitioned for success in the Lord's work? How joyful is the
prosperity which comes flying upon the wings of prayer! It is always best to get
blessings into our house in the legitimate way, by the door of prayer; then they
are blessings indeed, and not temptations. Even when prayer speeds not, the
blessings grow all the richer for the delay; the child Jesus was all the more
lovely in the eyes of Mary when she found Him after having sought Him sorrowing.
That which we win by prayer we should dedicate to God, as Hannah dedicated
Samuel. The gift came from heaven, let it go to heaven. Prayer brought it,
gratitude sang over it, let devotion consecrate it. Here will be a special
occasion for saying, "Of Thine own have I given unto Thee." Reader, is prayer
your element or your weariness? Which?
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