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Spurgeon's Morning & Evening Devotions
Morning, January 30
"And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily
rate for every day, all the days of his life." - 2 Kings 25:30
Jehoiachin was not sent away from the king's palace with a store to last him
for months, but his provision was given him as a daily pension. Herein he well
pictures the happy position of all the Lord's people. A daily portion is all
that a man really wants.
We do not need tomorrow's supplies; that day has not yet dawned, and its wants
are as yet unborn. The thirst which we may suffer in the month of June does not
need to be quenched in February, for we do not feel it yet; if we have enough
for each day as the days arrive we shall never know want. Sufficient for the
day is all that we can enjoy.
We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply of food and raiment;
the surplus gives us the care of storing it, and the anxiety of watching
against a thief. One staff aids a traveller, but a bundle of staves is a heavy
burden. Enough is not only as good as a feast, but is all that the greatest
glutton can truly enjoy.
This is all that we should expect; a craving for more than this is ungrateful.
When our Father does not give us more, we should be content with his daily
allowance. Jehoiachin's case is ours, we have a sure portion, a portion given
us of the king, a gracious portion, and a perpetual portion. Here is surely
ground for thankfulness.
Beloved Christian reader, in matters of grace you need a daily supply. You have
no store of strength. Day by day must you seek help from above.
It is a very sweet assurance that a daily portion is provided for you. In the
word, through the ministry, by meditation, in prayer, and waiting upon God you
shall receive renewed strength. In Jesus all needful things are laid up for you.
Then enjoy your continual allowance. Never go hungry while the daily bread of
grace is on the table of mercy.
Evening, January 30
"She was healed immediately." - Luke 8:47
One of the most touching and teaching of the Saviour's miracles is before us
to-night. The woman was very ignorant. She imagined that virtue came out of
Christ by a law of necessity, without his knowledge or direct will.
Moreover, she was a stranger to the generosity of Jesus' character, or she
would not have gone behind to steal the cure which he was so ready to bestow.
Misery should always place
itself right in the face of mercy. Had she known the love of Jesus' heart, she
would have said, "I have but to put myself where he can see me-his omniscience
will teach him my case, and
his love at once will work my cure."
We admire her faith, but we marvel at her ignorance. After she had obtained the
cure, she rejoiced with trembling: glad was she that the divine virtue had
wrought a marvel in her; but she feared lest Christ should retract the
blessing, and put a negative upon the grant of his grace: little did she
comprehend the fulness of his love! We have not so clear a view of him as we
could wish; we know not the heights and depths of his love; but we know of a
surety that he is too good to withdraw from a trembling soul the gift which it
has been able to obtain. But
here is the marvel of it: little as was her knowledge, her faith, because it
was real faith, saved her, and saved her at once.
There was no tedious delay-faith's miracle was instantaneous. If we have faith
as a grain of mustard seed, salvation is our present and eternal possession. If
in the list of the Lord's
children we are written as the feeblest of the family, yet, being heirs through
faith, no power, human or devilish, can eject us from salvation.
If we dare not lean our heads upon his bosom with John, yet if we can venture
in the press behind him, and touch the hem of his garment, we are made whole.
Courage, timid one! thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace. "Being justified by
faith, we have peace with God. "
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Daily devotions for 01-29-2005:
Devotion: Morning and Evening
Morning Title: Looking Forward
Evening Title: Coming Into Jesus
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Morning: Looking Forward
"The things which are not seen." --2 Corinthians 4:18
In our Christian pilgrimage it is well, for the most part, to be looking
forward. Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal. Whether it be for
hope, for joy, for consolation, or for the
inspiring of our love, the future must, after all, be the grand object of the
eye of faith.
Looking into the future we see sin cast out, the body of sin and death
destroyed, the soul made perfect, and fit to be a partaker of the inheritance
of the saints in light. Looking
further yet, the believer's enlightened eye can see death's river passed, the
gloomy stream
forded, and the hills of light attained on which standeth the celestial city;
he seeth himself
enter within the pearly gates, hailed as more than conqueror, crowned by the
hand of Christ,
embraced in the arms of Jesus, glorified with Him, and made to sit together
with Him on His
throne, even as He has overcome and has sat down with the Father on His throne.
The thought of this future may well relieve the darkness of the past and the
gloom of the present. The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows
of earth. Hush, hush, my doubts! death is but a narrow stream, and thou shalt
soon have forded it. Time, how short--eternity, how long! Death, how
brief--immortality, how endless! Methinks I
even now eat of Eshcol's clusters, and sip of the well which is within the
gate. The road is so, so short! I shall soon be there.
"When the world my heart is rending
With its heaviest storm of care,
My glad thoughts to heaven ascending,
Find a refuge from despair.
Faith's bright vision shall sustain me
Till life's pilgrimage is past;
Fears may vex and troubles pain me,
I shall reach my home at last."
Evening: Coming Into Jesus
"The dove came in to him in the evening." --Genesis 8:11
Blessed be the Lord for another day of mercy, even though I am now weary with
its toils. Unto
the preserver of men lift I my song of gratitude.
The dove found no rest out of the ark, and therefore returned to it; and my
soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no
satisfaction to be found in earthly things--God alone can give rest to my
spirit. As to my business, my possessions, my family, my
attainments, these are all well enough in their way, but they cannot fulfil the
desires of my
immortal nature. "Return unto thy rest, O my soul, for the Lord hath dealt
bountifully with
thee." It was at the still hour, when the gates of the day were closing, that
with weary wing the
dove came back to the master: O Lord, enable me this evening thus to return to
Jesus. She could not endure to spend a night hovering over the restless waste,
nor can I bear to be even for another hour away from Jesus, the rest of my
heart, the home of my spirit. She did not merely alight upon the roof of the
ark, she "came in to him;" even so would my longing spirit look into the secret
of the Lord, pierce to the interior of truth, enter into that which is within
the veil, and reach to my Beloved in very deed.
To Jesus must I come: short of the nearest and dearest intercourse with Him my
panting spirit
cannot stay. Blessed Lord Jesus, be with me, reveal Thyself, and abide with me
all night, so
that when I awake I may be still with thee. I note that the dove brought in her
mouth an olive
branch plucked off, the memorial of the past day, and a prophecy of the future.
Have I no pleasing record to bring home? No pledge and earnest of
lovingkindness yet to come? Yes, my Lord, I present Thee my grateful
acknowledgments for tender mercies which have been new every morning and fresh
every evening; and now, I pray Thee, put forth Thy hand and take Thy dove into
Thy bosom.
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