A Devotional from Spurgeon:
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
"He is precious." --1 Peter 2:7
As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved. How true this is. Not all roads lead to God, but all delights center on you Oh God. If anything is good, it is from you. The glances of his eyes outshine the sun: the beauties of his face are fairer than the choicest flowers: no fragrance is like the breath of his mouth. How sweet and unrelenting are you God, you never fail and always draw us with love. Gems of the mine, and pearls from the sea, are worthless things when measured by his preciousness. We put worth on things that you made! How foolish are we. All of your creation is priceless and beautiful. Help me Jesus to never put anything above you. Help me to also see the preciousness of your love and relationship to me. Peter tells us that Jesus is precious, but he did not and could not tell us how precious, nor could any of us compute the value of God's unspeakable gift. Words cannot set forth the preciousness of the Lord Jesus to his people, nor fully tell how essential he is to their satisfaction and happiness. God, as Peter could not speak of how unbelievable Jesus' worth was, neither can I. I only know that my soul yearns for His presence and I am nothing without Him. Sometimes I think I am. Sometimes I just go through life like it's mine to do whatever I want with. At times I think my ways are best. Please forgive me O Lord, I am young in Christ. Help me to mature and see my dependence. Believer, have you not found in the midst of plenty a sore famine if your Lord has been absent? Oh yes I have. The sun was shining, but Christ had hidden himself, and all the world was black to you; or it was night, and since the bright and morning star was gone, no other star could yield you so much as a ray of light. I have felt the lonliness, the despair without God. I have seen the life of meaninglessness. I have felt the dark overwhelm me. What a howling wilderness is this world without our Lord! If once he hideth himself from us, withered are the flowers of our garden; our pleasant fruits decay; the birds suspend their songs, and a tempest overturns our hopes. Please never again. I desire only to be in your presence. I hate the moments that I push you away. I despise those that pull me from you. I love your truth and desire your light. All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life. I have learned this truth, and God I pray I never forget it in fear, in madness, in despair or in anger. Help me to draw near to you in times of need. Cradle me as a child and show me how to depend on you for my life. Dear reader, what wouldst thou do in the world without him, when thou wakest up and lookest forward to the day's battle? I would perish. I would look to other things. I would crave that which only God can provide and I would waste my energy and love and heart and soul. What wouldst thou do at night, when thou comest home jaded and weary, if there were no door of fellowship between thee and Christ? How weary and jaded I can be. My comforter and redeemer has to be there. If He were not, I would be utterly lost. My heart would break and yearn for Him. What Hell that would be! Blessed be his name, he will not suffer us to try our lot without him, for Jesus never forsakes his own. Thank you Jesus. Oh how I love your wings which protect and keep me. I love your light and never want to be in the darkness. Yet, let the thought of what life would be without him enhance his preciousness. You are so precious, none can compare. The thought of life without you is enough to revive my heart to worship you even more. I love you and need you. Be my King and my life. For only what is done for you will last!
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