Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Wednesday June 7, 2023 |
Evening Time: 12:29 PM PST
"Be zealous." --Revelation 3:19
If you would see souls converted, if you would hear the cry that "the
kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord"; if you would place
crowns upon the head of the Saviour, and His throne lifted high, then be filled
with zeal. For, under God, the way of the world's conversion must be by the zeal
of the church. Every grace shall do exploits, but this shall be first; prudence,
knowledge, patience, and courage will follow in their places, but zeal must lead
the van. It is not the extent of your knowledge, though that is useful; it is
not the extent of your talent, though that is not to be despised; it is your
zeal that shall do great exploits. This zeal is the fruit of the Holy Spirit: it
draws its vital force from the continued operations of the Holy Ghost in
the soul. If our inner life dwindles, if our heart beats slowly before God, we
shall not know zeal; but if all be strong and vigorous within, then we cannot
but feel a loving anxiety to see the kingdom of Christ come, and His will done
on earth, even as it is in heaven. A deep sense of gratitude will nourish
Christian zeal. Looking to the hole of the pit whence we were digged, we find
abundant reason why we should spend and be spent for God. And zeal is also
stimulated by the thought of the eternal future. It looks with tearful
eyes down to the flames of hell, and it cannot slumber: it looks up with anxious
gaze to the glories of heaven, and it cannot but bestir itself. It feels that
time is short compared with the work to be done, and therefore it devotes all
that it has to the cause of its Lord. And it is ever strengthened by the
remembrance of Christ's example. He was clothed with zeal as with a cloak.
How swift the chariot-wheels of duty went with Him! He knew no loitering by the
way. Let us prove that we are His disciples by manifesting the same spirit of
zeal.
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