Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Wednesday August 8, 2018 |
Morning Time: 8:10 AM PST
"They weave the spider's web." --Isaiah 59:5
See the spider's web, and behold in it a most suggestive picture of the
hypocrite's religion. It is meant to catch his prey: the spider fattens
himself on flies, and the Pharisee has his reward. Foolish persons are easily
entrapped by the loud professions of pretenders, and even the more judicious
cannot always escape. Philip baptized Simon Magus, whose guileful declaration of
faith was so soon exploded by the stern rebuke of Peter. Custom, reputation,
praise, advancement, and other flies, are the small game which hypocrites take
in their nets. A spider's web is a marvel of skill: look at it and admire
the cunning hunter's wiles. Is not a deceiver's religion equally wonderful? How
does he make so barefaced a lie appear to be a truth? How can he make his tinsel
answer so well the purpose of gold? A spider's web comes all from the
creature's own bowels. The bee gathers her wax from flowers, the spider
sucks no flowers, and yet she spins out her material to any length. Even so
hypocrites find their trust and hope within themselves; their anchor was forged
on their own anvil, and their cable twisted by their own hands. They lay their
own foundation, and hew out the pillars of their own house, disdaining to be
debtors to the sovereign grace of God. But a spider's web is very frail.
It is curiously wrought, but not enduringly manufactured. It is no match for the
servant's broom, or the traveller's staff. The hypocrite needs no battery of
Armstrongs to blow his hope to pieces, a mere puff of wind will do it.
Hypocritical cobwebs will soon come down when the besom of destruction begins
its purifying work. Which reminds us of one more thought, viz., that such
cobwebs are not to be endured in the Lord's house: He will see to it that
they and those who spin them shall be destroyed for ever. O my soul, be thou
resting on something better than a spider's web. Be the Lord Jesus thine eternal
hiding-place.
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