[blindchristian] FW: Blue Letter Bible: Morning and Evening
- From: "Victoria" <gilkerson2730@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 07:03:45 -0600
Victoria
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Subject: Blue Letter Bible: Morning and Evening
Morning and Evening
Charles H. Spurgeon
February 1, 2015
Morning Reading
They shall sing in the ways of the Lord.
—Psalm 138:5
The time when Christians begin to sing in the ways of the Lord is when they
first lose their burden at the foot of the Cross. Not even the songs of the
angels seem so sweet as the first song of rapture which gushes from the inmost
soul of the forgiven child of God. You know how John Bunyan describes it. He
says when poor Pilgrim lost his burden at the Cross, he gave three great leaps,
and went on his way singing-
"Blest Cross! blest Sepulchre! blest rather be
The Man that there was put to shame for me!"
Believer, do you recollect the day when your fetters fell off? Do you remember
the place when Jesus met you, and said, "I have loved thee with an everlasting
love; I have blotted out as a cloud thy transgressions, and as a thick cloud
thy sins; they shall not be mentioned against thee any more for ever." Oh! what
a sweet season is that when Jesus takes away the pain of sin. When the Lord
first pardoned my sin, I was so joyous that I could scarce refrain from
dancing. I thought on my road home from the house where I had been set at
liberty, that I must tell the stones in the street the story of my deliverance.
So full was my soul of joy, that I wanted to tell every snow-flake that was
falling from heaven of the wondrous love of Jesus, who had blotted out the sins
of one of the chief of rebels. But it is not only at the commencement of the
Christian life that believers have reason for song; as long as they live they
discover cause to sing in the ways of the Lord, and their experience of His
constant lovingkindness leads them to say, "I will bless the Lord at all times:
His praise shall continually be in my mouth." See to it, brother, that thou
magnifiest the Lord this day.
"Long as we tread this desert land,
New mercies shall new songs demand."
Evening Reading
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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