DAILY READINGS by Charles Spurgeon
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MORNING: February 13 "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us. Consider who we
were, and what we feel ourselves to be even now when corruption is powerful in us, and you
will wonder at our adoption. Yet we are called "the sons of God." What a high
relationship is that of a son, and what privileges it brings! What care and tenderness the
son expects from his father, and what love the father feels towards the son! But all that,
and more than that, we now have through Christ. As for the temporary drawback of suffering
with the elder brother, this we accept as an honour: "Therefore the world knoweth us
not, because it knew him not." We are content to be unknown with him in his
humiliation, for we are to be exalted with him. "Beloved, now are we the sons of
God." That is easy to read, but it is not so easy to feel. How is it with your heart
this morning? Are you in the lowest depths of sorrow? Does corruption rise within your
spirit, and grace seem like a poor spark trampled under foot? Does your faith almost fail
you? Fear not, it is neither your graces nor feelings on which you are to live: you must
live simply by faith on Christ. With all these things against us, now--in the very depths
of our sorrow, wherever we may be--now, as much in the valley as on the mountain,
"Beloved, now are we the sons of God." "Ah, but," you say, "see
how I am arrayed! my graces are not bright; my righteousness does not shine with apparent
glory." But read the next: "It doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know
that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him." The Holy Spirit shall purify our
minds, and divine power shall refine our bodies, then shall we see him as he is. |
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From Charles H. Spurgeon's Morning and Evening.
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