Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Wednesday February 1, 2023 |
Evening Time: 10:48 PM PST
"Thy love to me was wonderful." --2 Samuel 1:26
Come, dear readers, let each one of us speak for himself of the wonderful
love, not of Jonathan, but of Jesus. We will not relate what we have been told,
but the things which we have tasted and handled-of the love of Christ. Thy love
to me, O Jesus, was wonderful when I was a stranger wandering far from Thee,
fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind. Thy love restrained me from
committing the sin which is unto death, and withheld me from self-destruction.
Thy love held back the axe when Justice said, "Cut it down! why cumbereth it the
ground?" Thy love drew me into the wilderness, stripped me there, and made me
feel the guilt of my sin, and the burden of mine iniquity. Thy love spake thus
comfortably to me when, I was sore dismayed--"Come unto Me, and I will give thee
rest." Oh, how matchless Thy love when, in a moment, Thou didst wash my sins
away, and make my polluted soul, which was crimson with the blood of my
nativity, and black with the grime of my transgressions, to be white as the
driven snow, and pure as the finest wool. How Thou didst commend Thy love when
Thou didst whisper in my ears, "I am thine and thou art Mine." Kind were those
accents when Thou saidst, "The Father Himself loveth you." And sweet the
moments, passing sweet, when Thou declaredst to me "the love of the Spirit."
Never shall my soul forget those chambers of fellowship where Thou has unveiled
Thyself to me. Had Moses his cleft in the rock, where he saw the train, the back
parts of his God? We, too, have had our clefts in the rock, where we have seen
the full splendours of the Godhead in the person of Christ. Did David remember
the tracks of the wild goat, the land of Jordan and the Hermonites? We, too, can
remember spots to memory dear, equal to these in blessedness. Precious Lord
Jesus, give us a fresh draught of Thy wondrous love to begin the month with.
Amen.
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