Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Wednesday April 4, 2012 |
Evening Time: 4:45 PM PST
"Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord." --Isaiah 2:3
It is exceedingly beneficial to our souls to mount above this present evil
world to something nobler and better. The cares of this world and the
deceitfulness of riches are apt to choke everything good within us, and we grow
fretful, desponding, perhaps proud and carnal. It is well for us to cut down
these thorns and briers, for heavenly seed sown among them is not likely to
yield a harvest; and where shall we find a better sickle with which to cut them
down than communion with God and the things of the kingdom? In the valleys of
Switzerland many of the inhabitants are deformed, and all wear a sickly
appearance, for the atmosphere is charged with miasma, and is close and
stagnant; but up yonder, on the mountain, you find a hardy race, who breathe the
clear fresh air as it blows from the virgin snows of the Alpine summits. It
would be well if the dwellers in the valley could frequently leave their abodes
among the marshes and the fever mists, and inhale the bracing element upon the
hills. It is to such an exploit of climbing that I invite you this evening. May
the Spirit of God assist us to leave the mists of fear and the fevers of
anxiety, and all the ills which gather in this valley of earth, and to ascend
the mountains of anticipated joy and blessedness. May God the Holy Spirit cut
the cords that keep us here below, and assist us to mount! We sit too often like
chained eagles fastened to the rock, only that, unlike the eagle, we begin to
love our chain, and would, perhaps, if it came really to the test, be loath to
have it snapped. May God now grant us grace, if we cannot escape from the chain
as to our flesh, yet to do so as to our spirits; and leaving the body, like a
servant, at the foot of the hill, may our soul, like Abraham, attain the top of
the mountain, there to indulge in communion with the Most High.
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