Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Tuesday November 13, 2018 |
Morning Time: 10:45 AM PST
"The branch cannot bear fruit of itself." --John 15:4
How did you begin to bear fruit? It was when you came to Jesus and cast
yourselves on His great atonement, and rested on His finished righteousness. Ah!
what fruit you had then! Do you remember those early days? Then indeed the vine
flourished, the tender grape appeared, the pomegranates budded forth, and the
beds of spices gave forth their smell. Have you declined since then? If you
have, we charge you to remember that time of love, and repent, and do thy first
works. Be most in those engagements which you have experimentally proved to
draw you nearest to Christ, because it is from Him that all your fruits
proceed. Any holy exercise which will bring you to Him will help you to bear
fruit. The sun is, no doubt, a great worker in fruit-creating among the trees of
the orchard: and Jesus is still more so among the trees of His garden of grace.
When have you been the most fruitless? Has not it been when you have lived
farthest from the Lord Jesus Christ, when you have slackened in prayer, when you
have departed from the simplicity of your faith, when your graces have engrossed
your attention instead of your Lord, when you have said, "My mountain standeth
firm, I shall never be moved"; and have forgotten where your strength
dwells--has not it been then that your fruit has ceased? Some of us have
been taught that we have nothing out of Christ, by terrible abasements of heart
before the Lord; and when we have seen the utter barrenness and death of all
creature power, we have cried in anguish, "From Him all my fruit must be found,
for no fruit can ever come from me." We are taught, by past experience, that the
more simply we depend upon the grace of God in Christ, and wait upon the Holy
Spirit, the more we shall bring forth fruit unto God. Oh! to trust Jesus for
fruit as well as for life.
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