Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Tuesday January 19, 2021 |
Evening Time: 2:20 PM PST
"Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the
Scriptures." --Luke 24:45
He whom we viewed last evening as opening Scripture, we here perceive opening
the understanding. In the first work He has many fellow-labourers, but in the
second He stands alone; many can bring the Scriptures to the mind, but the Lord
alone can prepare the mind to receive the Scriptures. Our Lord Jesus differs
from all other teachers; they reach the ear, but He instructs the heart; they
deal with the outward letter, but He imparts an inward taste for the truth, by
which we perceive its savour and spirit. The most unlearned of men become ripe
scholars in the school of grace when the Lord Jesus by His Holy Spirit unfolds
the mysteries of the kingdom to them, and grants the divine anointing by which
they are enabled to behold the invisible. Happy are we if we have had our
understandings cleared and strengthened by the Master! How many men of profound
learning are ignorant of eternal things! They know the killing letter of
revelation, but its killing spirit they cannot discern; they have a veil upon
their hearts which the eyes of carnal reason cannot penetrate. Such was our case
a little time ago; we who now see were once utterly blind; truth was to us as
beauty in the dark, a thing unnoticed and neglected. Had it not been for the
love of Jesus we should have remained to this moment in utter ignorance, for
without His gracious opening of our understanding, we could no more have
attained to spiritual knowledge than an infant can climb the Pyramids, or an
ostrich fly up to the stars. Jesus' College is the only one in which God's truth
can be really learned; other schools may teach us what is to be believed, but
Christ's alone can show us how to believe it. Let us sit at the feet of Jesus,
and by earnest prayer call in His blessed aid that our dull wits may grow
brighter, and our feeble understandings may receive heavenly things.
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