Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Wednesday April 7, 2021 |
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"O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame?" --Psalm 4:2
An instructive writer has made a mournful list of the honours which the
blinded people of Israel awarded to their long-expected King. (1.) They gave Him
a procession of honour, in which Roman legionaries, Jewish priests, men
and women, took a part, He Himself bearing His cross. This is the triumph which
the world awards to Him who comes to overthrow man's direst foes. Derisive
shouts are His only acclamations, and cruel taunts His only paeans of praise.
(2.) They presented Him with the wine of honour. Instead of a golden cup
of generous wine they offered Him the criminal's stupefying death-draught, which
He refused because He would preserve an uninjured taste wherewith to taste of
death; and afterwards when He cried, "I thirst," they gave Him vinegar mixed
with gall, thrust to His mouth upon a sponge. Oh! wretched, detestable
inhospitality to the King's Son. (3.) He was provided with a guard of
honour, who showed their esteem of Him by gambling over His garments, which
they had seized as their booty. Such was the body-guard of the adored of heaven;
a quaternion of brutal gamblers. (4.) A throne of honour was found for
Him upon the bloody tree; no easier place of rest would rebel men yield to their
liege Lord. The cross was, in fact, the full expression of the world's feeling
towards Him; "There," they seemed to say, "Thou Son of God, this is the manner
in which God Himself should be treated, could we reach Him." (5.) The title
of honour was nominally "King of the Jews," but that the blinded nation
distinctly repudiated, and really called Him "King of thieves," by preferring
Barabbas, and by placing Jesus in the place of highest shame between two
thieves. His glory was thus in all things turned into shame by the sons of men,
but it shall yet gladden the eyes of saints and angels, world without end.
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