Oh how this is dear to my heart this morning, that Jesus’s divine word promised us comfort and that He watched over us day and night and sees all our troubles. Spurgeon refers to Jesus’s love as a spiritual painkiller, and I must admit this is true. I shall be like Mary and sit at Jesus’s feet when I cannot bear my doubts and troubles.
Sometimes we read our Bible as if it’s a duty to fulfill our daily devotion schedule with a check mark. Do we believe this is what Jesus required of us? Are we not like Marthy when we do that? Then why not accept that His sweet voice calls us to delight in His word and be comforted.
Oh Jesus, draw us near you. Let not our spirit be troubled, disobedient, prideful, stubborn, discouraged, lonely, or doubtful. For without your love, we are spiritually walking alone. Let your Word be a delight, rebuke, a gentle call to repentance, a loving letter to our hearts that we may not sin against you. It may hurt us to turn our hearts back to You, but forgive us and teach us your way, Lord. Strengthen our faith through your Word. May this weekend remind you of your calling to share the gospel with those who have not heard it.
Charles Spurgeon
“And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?”— Luke 24:38
“Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak O Israel, my way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God?” The Lord cares for everything, and the smallest creatures share in His universal providence, but His particular providence is over His saints.
“The angel of the Lord encamps round about them that fear him.”
“Precious shall their blood be in his sight.”
“Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.”
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are the called according to his purpose.”
Let the fact that, while He is the Saviour of all men, he is specially the Saviour of those who believe, cheer and comfort you. You are His peculiar care; His royal treasure which He guards as the apple of His eye; His vineyard over which He watches day and night.
“Even the hairs of your head are all numbered.”
Let the thought of his special love to you be a spiritual painkiller, a soothing balm to your woe: “I will never leave you, nor forsake you.” God says that as much to you as to any saint of old.
“Fear not, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” We lose much consolation by the habit of reading His promises for the whole Church, instead of taking them directly home to ourselves.
Believer grasp the divine Word with a personal, appropriating faith. Think that you hear Jesus say, “I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail.” Imagine you see Him walking on the waters of your trouble, for He is there and saying, “Do not fear; it is I.”
These are sweet words of Christ! May the Holy Spirit make you feel them as if they were spoken to you; forget others for awhile—accept the voice of Jesus as addressed to you, and say, “Jesus whispers consolation; I cannot refuse it; I will sit under his shadow with great delight.”
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