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Spurgeon's Morning & Evening Devotions
Morning, September 20
"The liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free."
- Galatians 5:1
This "liberty" makes us free to heaven's charter-the Bible. Here
is a choice passage, believer, "When thou passest through the
rivers, I will be with thee." You are free to that.
Here is another: "The mountains shall depart, and the hills be
removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee"; you are
free to that. You are a welcome guest at the table of the
promises. Scripture is a never-failing treasury filled with
boundless stores of grace.
It is the bank of heaven; you may draw from it as much as you
please, without let or hindrance. Come in faith and you are
welcome to all covenant blessings. There is not a promise in the
Word which shall be withheld.
In the depths of tribulations let this freedom comfort you;
amidst waves of distress let it cheer you; when sorrows surround
thee let it be thy solace. This is thy Father's love-token; thou
art free to it at all times. Thou art also free to the throne of
grace.
It is the believer's privilege to have access at all times to his
heavenly Father. Whatever our desires, our difficulties, our
wants, we are at liberty to spread all before him. It matters not
how much we may have sinned, we may ask and expect pardon.
It signifies nothing how poor we are, we may plead his promise
that he will provide all things needful. We have permission to
approach his throne at all times-in midnight's darkest hour, or
in noontide's most burning heat. Exercise thy right, O believer,
and live up to thy privilege.
Thou art free to all that is treasured up in Christ-wisdom,
righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. It matters not
what thy need is, for there is fulness of supply in Christ, and
it is there for thee. O what a "freedom" is thine! freedom from
condemnation, freedom to the promises, freedom to the throne of
grace, and at last freedom to enter heaven!
Evening, September 20
"For this child I prayed."
- 1 Samuel 1:27
Devout souls delight to look upon those mercies which they have
obtained in answer to supplication, for they can see God's
especial love in them. When we can name our blessings Samuel,
that is, "asked of God," they will be as dear to us as her child
was to Hannah. Peninnah had many children, but they came as
common blessings unsought in prayer: Hannah's one heaven-given
child was dearer far, because he was the fruit of earnest
pleadings.
How sweet was that water to Samson which he found at "the well of
him that prayed!" Quassia cups turn all waters bitter, but the
cup of prayer puts a sweetness into the draughts it brings. Did
we pray for the conversion of our children? How doubly sweet,
when they are saved, to see in them our own petitions fulfilled!
Better to rejoice over them as the fruit of our pleadings than as
the fruit of our bodies. Have we sought of the Lord some choice
spiritual gift? When it comes to us it will be wrapped up in the
gold cloth of God's faithfulness and truth, and so be doubly
precious.
Have we petitioned for success in the Lord's work? How joyful is
the prosperity which comes flying upon the wings of prayer! It is
always best to get blessings into our house in the legitimate
way, by the door of prayer; then they are blessings indeed, and
not temptations. Even when prayer speeds not, the blessings grow
all the richer for the delay; the child Jesus was all the more
lovely in the eyes of Mary when she found him after having sought
him sorrowing. That which we win by prayer we should dedicate to
God, as Hannah dedicated Samuel.
The gift came from heaven, let it go to heaven. Prayer brought
it, gratitude sang over it, let devotion consecrate it. Here will
be a special occasion for saying, "Of thine own have I given unto
thee. " Reader, is prayer your element or your weariness? Which?
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