[blindchristian] Morning and Evening, January 19, 2016

From: "Victoria E Gilkerson" <vegilkerson@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <blindchristian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "James Gurecki" <the.eagle9273@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 04:02:59 -0600

Morning and Evening
Charles H. Spurgeon
January 19, 2016

Morning Reading

I sought him, but I found him not.

-Song of Songs 3:1

Tell me where you lost the company of Christ, and I will tell you the most
likely place to find Him. Have you lost Christ in the closet by restraining
prayer? Then it is there you must seek and find Him. Did you lose Christ by
sin? You will find Christ in no other way but by the giving up of the sin,
and seeking by the Holy Spirit to mortify the member in which the lust doth
dwell. Did you lose Christ by neglecting the Scriptures? You must find
Christ in the Scriptures. It is a true proverb, "Look for a thing where you
dropped it, it is there." So look for Christ where you lost Him, for He has
not gone away. But it is hard work to go back for Christ. Bunyan tells us,
the pilgrim found the piece of the road back to the Arbour of Ease, where he
lost his roll, the hardest he had ever travelled. Twenty miles onward is
easier than to go one mile back for the lost evidence.

Take care, then, when you find your Master, to cling close to Him. But how
is it you have lost Him? One would have thought you would never have parted
with such a precious friend, whose presence is so sweet, whose words are so
comforting, and whose company is so dear to you! How is it that you did not
watch Him every moment for fear of losing sight of Him? Yet, since you have
let Him go, what a mercy that you are seeking Him, even though you
mournfully groan, "O that I knew where I might find Him!" Go on seeking, for
it is dangerous to be without thy Lord. Without Christ you are like a sheep
without its shepherd; like a tree without water at its roots; like a sere
leaf in the tempest-not bound to the tree of life. With thine whole heart
seek Him, and He will be found of thee: only give thyself thoroughly up to
the search, and verily, thou shalt yet discover Him to thy joy and gladness.

Evening Reading

Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the
Scriptures.

-Luke 24:45

He whom we viewed last evening as opening Scripture, we here perceive
opening the understanding. In the first work He has many fellow-labourers,
but in the second He stands alone; many can bring the Scriptures to the
mind, but the Lord alone can prepare the mind to receive the Scriptures. Our
Lord Jesus differs from all other teachers; they reach the ear, but He
instructs the heart; they deal with the outward letter, but He imparts an
inward taste for the truth, by which we perceive its savour and spirit. The
most unlearned of men become ripe scholars in the school of grace when the
Lord Jesus by His Holy Spirit unfolds the mysteries of the kingdom to them,
and grants the divine anointing by which they are enabled to behold the
invisible. Happy are we if we have had our understandings cleared and
strengthened by the Master! How many men of profound learning are ignorant
of eternal things! They know the killing letter of revelation, but its
killing spirit they cannot discern; they have a veil upon their hearts which
the eyes of carnal reason cannot penetrate. Such was our case a little time
ago; we who now see were once utterly blind; truth was to us as beauty in
the dark, a thing unnoticed and neglected. Had it not been for the love of
Jesus we should have remained to this moment in utter ignorance, for without
His gracious opening of our understanding, we could no more have attained to
spiritual knowledge than an infant can climb the Pyramids, or an ostrich fly
up to the stars. Jesus' College is the only one in which God's truth can be
really learned; other schools may teach us what is to be believed, but
Christ's alone can show us how to believe it. Let us sit at the feet of
Jesus, and by earnest prayer call in His blessed aid that our dull wits may
grow brighter, and our feeble understandings may receive heavenly things.

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[blindchristian] Morning and Evening, January 19, 2016

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