Charles Spurgeon Morning and Evening Daily Devotional (4th March 2024)
Morning & Evening: Morning Devo, Mar. 4th
Monday, March 4, 2024
SCRIPTURE: My grace is sufficient for thee. — 2 Cor 12:9
MORNING THOUGHT: If none of God’s saints were troubled and tried—we would not know half so well the consolations of divine grace. When we find the wanderer who has nowhere to lay his head, who yet can say, “Still will I trust in the Lord,” or when we see the pauper starving on bread and water, who still glories in Jesus; when we see the bereaved widow overwhelmed in affliction, and yet having faith in Christ; Oh! what honor it reflects on the gospel.
God’s grace is illustrated and magnified—in the troubles and trials of believers. Saints bear up under every discouragement, believing that all things work together for their good and that out of apparent evils—a real blessing shall ultimately spring! They believe that their God will either work a deliverance for them speedily, or most assuredly support them in the trouble, as long as He is pleased to keep them in it. This patience of the saints proves the power of divine grace.
There is a lighthouse out at sea—it is a calm night—I cannot tell whether the edifice is firm; the tempest must rage about it and then I shall know whether it will stand. So with the Spirit’s work—if it were not on many occasions surrounded with tempestuous waters-we would not know that it was true and strong; if the winds did not blow upon it—we would not know how firm and secure it was.
The master-works of God are those men who stand in the midst of difficulties, steadfast, unmoveable, “Calm mid the bewildering cry, confident of victory.” He who would glorify his God—must set his heart upon meeting with many trials. No man can be illustrious before the Lord—unless his conflicts are many. If then, yours is a much-tried path, rejoice in it, because you will the better show forth the all-sufficient grace of God. As for His failing you, never dream of it—perish the thought! The God who has been sufficient until now—should be trusted to the end!
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Monday, March 4, 2024
SCRIPTURE: They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house. — Ps 36:8
EVENING THOUGHT: The Queen of Sheba was amazed at the sumptuousness of Solomon’s table. She was overwhelmed when she saw the provision of a single day; and she marveled equally at the company of servants who were feasted at the royal table. But what is this, compared to the feast provided by the God of grace? Thousands of his people are daily fed there! Hungry and thirsty, they bring large appetites with them to the banquet but not one of them returns unsatisfied; there is enough for each, enough for all, enough for evermore!
Though the multitude which feeds at Jehovah’s table is as countless as the sands of the sea—yet each one has his portion of food. Think how much grace one Christian requires—so much that nothing but the Infinite could supply him for one day! And yet the Lord spreads His table, not for one but many saints; not for one day but for many years; not for many years only but for generation after generation!
Observe the full feasting spoken of in the text, the guests at mercy’s banquet are satisfied, nay, more “they feast;” and that not with ordinary fare but “on the abundance of Your house“—the special abundance of God’s own house! And such feasting is guaranteed by a faithful promise to all those who are sheltered under the shadow of Jehovah’s wings.
I once thought, that if I might but get the broken crumbs at God’s back door of grace—that I would be satisfied; like the woman who said, “the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the master’s table.” But no child of God is ever served with scraps and leftovers! Like Mephibosheth, they all feast from the king’s own table. In matters of grace, we all have Benjamin’s portion—we all have ten times more than we could have expected! And though our necessities are great—yet are we often amazed at the marvelous plenty of grace which God gives us experimentally to enjoy!
Morning and Evening’ is the classic daily devotional from Charles H. Spurgeon.
Charles Spurgeon Morning and Evening Daily Devotional (4 March 2024) written by Charles H. Spurgeon