Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Wednesday October 16, 2019 |
Evening Time: 8:14 PM PST
"With Thee is the fountain of life." --Psalm 36:9
There are times in our spiritual experience when human counsel or sympathy,
or religious ordinances, fail to comfort or help us. Why does our gracious God
permit this? Perhaps it is because we have been living too much without Him, and
He therefore takes away everything upon which we have been in the habit of
depending, that He may drive us to Himself. It is a blessed thing to live at the
fountain head. While our skin- bottles are full, we are content, like Hagar and
Ishmael, to go into the wilderness; but when those are dry, nothing will serve
us but "Thou God seest me." We are like the prodigal, we love the swine-troughs
and forget our Father's house. Remember, we can make swine-troughs and husks
even out of the forms of religion; they are blessed things, but we may put them
in God's place, and then they are of no value. Anything becomes an idol when it
keeps us away from God: even the brazen serpent is to be despised as
"Nehushtan," if we worship it instead of God. The prodigal was never safer than
when he was driven to his father's bosom, because he could find sustenance
nowhere else. Our Lord favours us with a famine in the land that it may make us
seek after Himself the more. The best position for a Christian is living wholly
and directly on God's grace--still abiding where he stood at first--"Having
nothing, and yet possessing all things." Let us never for a moment think that
our standing is in our sanctification, our mortification, our graces, or our
feelings, but know that because Christ offered a full atonement, therefore we
are saved; for we are complete in Him. Having nothing of our own to trust to,
but resting upon the merits of Jesus--His passion and holy life furnish us with
the only sure ground of confidence. Beloved, when we are brought to a thirsting
condition, we are sure to turn to the fountain of life with eagerness.
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