Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Saturday June 10, 2023 |
Evening Time: 6:10 PM PST
"They are they which testify of Me." --John 5:39
Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega of the Bible. He is the constant theme of
its sacred pages; from first to last they testify of Him. At the creation we at
once discern Him as one of the sacred Trinity; we catch a glimpse of Him in the
promise of the woman's seed; we see Him typified in the ark of Noah; we walk
with Abraham, as He sees Messiah's day; we dwell in the tents of Isaac and
Jacob, feeding upon the gracious promise; we hear the venerable Israel talking
of Shiloh; and in the numerous types of the law, we find the Redeemer abundantly
foreshadowed. Prophets and kings, priests and preachers, all look one way--they
all stand as the cherubs did over the ark, desiring to look within, and to read
the mystery of God's great propitiation. Still more manifestly in the New
Testament we find our Lord the one pervading subject. It is not an ingot here
and there, or dust of gold thinly scattered, but here you stand upon a solid
floor of gold; for the whole substance of the New Testament is Jesus crucified,
and even its closing sentence is bejewelled with the Redeemer's name. We should
always read Scripture in this light; we should consider the word to be as a
mirror into which Christ looks down from heaven; and then we, looking into it,
see His face reflected as in a glass--darkly, it is true, but still in such a
way as to be a blessed preparation for seeing Him as we shall see Him face to
face. This volume contains Jesus Christ's letters to us, perfumed by His love.
These pages are the garments of our King, and they all smell of myrrh, and
aloes, and cassia. Scripture is the royal chariot in which Jesus rides, and it
is paved with love for the daughters of Jerusalem. The Scriptures are the
swaddling bands of the holy child Jesus; unroll them and you find your Saviour.
The quintessence of the word of God is Christ.
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