Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Thursday July 20, 2017 |
Morning Time: 6:07 AM PST
"The earnest of our inheritance." --Ephesians 1:14
Oh! what enlightenment, what joys, what consolation, what delight of heart is
experienced by that man who has learned to feed on Jesus, and on Jesus alone.
Yet the realization which we have of Christ's preciousness is, in this life,
imperfect at the best. As an old writer says, "'Tis but a taste!" We have tasted
"that the Lord is gracious," but we do not yet know how good and gracious
He is, although what we know of His sweetness makes us long for more. We have
enjoyed the firstfruits of the Spirit, and they have set us hungering and
thirsting for the fulness of the heavenly vintage. We groan within ourselves,
waiting for the adoption. Here we are like Israel in the wilderness, who
had but one cluster from Eshcol, there we shall be in the vineyard. Here
we see the manna falling small, like coriander seed, but there shall we eat the
bread of heaven and the old corn of the kingdom. We are but beginners now in
spiritual education; for although we have learned the first letters of the
alphabet, we cannot read words yet, much less can we put sentences together; but
as one says, "He that has been in heaven but five minutes, knows more than the
general assembly of divines on earth." We have many ungratified desires at
present, but soon every wish shall be satisfied; and all our powers shall find
the sweetest employment in that eternal world of joy. O Christian, antedate
heaven for a few years. Within a very little time thou shalt be rid of all thy
trials and thy troubles. Thine eyes now suffused with tears shall weep no
longer. Thou shalt gaze in ineffable rapture upon the splendour of Him who sits
upon the throne. Nay, more, upon His throne shalt thou sit. The triumph of His
glory shall be shared by thee; His crown, His joy, His paradise, these shall be
thine, and thou shalt be co-heir with Him who is the heir of all things.
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