Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Thursday March 30, 2017 |
Evening Time: 10:40 PM PST
"Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord." --Lamentations
3:40
The spouse who fondly loves her absent husband longs for his return; a long
protracted separation from her lord is a semi-death to her spirit: and so with
souls who love the Saviour much, they must see His face, they cannot bear that
He should be away upon the mountains of Bether, and no more hold communion with
them. A reproaching glance, an uplifted finger will be grievous to loving
children, who fear to offend their tender father, and are only happy in his
smile. Beloved, it was so once with you. A text of Scripture, a threatening, a
touch of the rod of affliction, and you went to your Father's feet, crying,
"Show me wherefore Thou contendest with me?" Is it so now? Are you content to
follow Jesus afar off? Can you contemplate suspended communion with Christ
without alarm? Can you bear to have your Beloved walking contrary to you,
because you walk contrary to Him? Have your sins separated between you and your
God, and is your heart at rest? O let me affectionately warn you, for it is a
grievous thing when we can live contentedly without the present enjoyment of the
Saviour's face. Let us labour to feel what an evil thing this is--little
love to our own dying Saviour, little joy in our precious Jesus, little
fellowship with the Beloved! Hold a true Lent in your souls, while you sorrow
over your hardness of heart. Do not stop at sorrow! Remember where you first
received salvation. Go at once to the cross. There, and there only, can
you get your spirit quickened. No matter how hard, how insensible, how dead we
may have become, let us go again in all the rags and poverty, and defilement of
our natural condition. Let us clasp that cross, let us look into those languid
eyes, let us bathe in that fountain filled with blood--this will bring back to
us our first love; this will restore the simplicity of our faith, and the
tenderness of our heart.
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