Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Tuesday November 22, 2022 |
Evening Time: 11:32 PM PST
"The power of His resurrection." --Philippians 3:10
The doctrine of a risen Saviour is exceedingly precious. The resurrection is
the corner-stone of the entire building of Christianity. It is the key-stone of
the arch of our salvation. It would take a volume to set forth all the streams
of living water which flow from this one sacred source, the resurrection of our
dear Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; but to know that He has risen, and to
have fellowship with Him as such--communing with the risen Saviour by possessing
a risen life--seeing Him leave the tomb by leaving the tomb of worldliness
ourselves, this is even still more precious. The doctrine is the basis of the
experience, but as the flower is more lovely than the root, so is the experience
of fellowship with the risen Saviour more lovely than the doctrine itself. I
would have you believe that Christ rose from the dead so as to sing of
it, and derive all the consolation which it is possible for you to extract from
this well-ascertained and well-witnessed fact; but I beseech you, rest not
contented even there. Though you cannot, like the disciples, see Him visibly,
yet I bid you aspire to see Christ Jesus by the eye of faith; and though, like
Mary Magdalene, you may not "touch" Him, yet may you be privileged to converse
with Him, and to know that He is risen, you yourselves being risen in Him to
newness of life. To know a crucified Saviour as having crucified all my sins, is
a high degree of knowledge; but to know a risen Saviour as having justified me,
and to realize that He has bestowed upon me new life, having given me to be a
new creature through His own newness of life, this is a noble style of
experience: short of it, none ought to rest satisfied. May you both "know Him,
and the power of His resurrection." Why should souls who are quickened with
Jesus, wear the grave-clothes of worldliness and unbelief? Rise, for the Lord is
risen.
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