DAILY READINGS by Charles Spurgeon
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January 26 We must not cease to wonder at the great marvels of our God. It would be very difficult
to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with
the majesty of God's glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its
voice with bowed head in humble prayer, yet it silently adores. Our incarnate God is to be
worshipped as "the Wonderful." That God should consider his fallen creature,
man, and instead of sweeping him away with the besom of destruction, should himself
undertake to be man's Redeemer, and to pay his ransom price, is, indeed marvelous! But to
each believer redemption is most marvelous as he views it in relation to himself. It is a
miracle of grace indeed, that Jesus should forsake the thrones and royalties above, to
suffer ignominiously below for you. Let your soul lose itself in wonder, for wonder is in
this way a very practical emotion. Holy wonder will lead you to grateful worship and
heartfelt thanksgiving. It will cause within you godly watchfulness; you will be afraid to
sin against such a love as this. Feeling the presence of the mighty God in the gift of his
dear Son, you will put off your shoes from off your feet, because the place whereon you
stand is holy ground. You will be moved at the same time to glorious hope. If Jesus has
done such marvelous things on your behalf, you will feel that heaven itself is not too
great for your expectation. Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been
astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen
the Savior? Dear reader, it may be that from the quietness and solitariness of your life,
you are scarcely able to imitate the shepherds of Bethlehem, who told what they had seen
and heard, but you can, at least, fill up the circle of the worshippers before the throne,
by wondering at what God has done. |
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From Charles H. Spurgeon's Morning and Evening.
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