Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Monday August 26, 2019 |
Evening Time: 5:04 PM PST
"The people, when they beheld Him, were greatly amazed, and running to Him
saluted Him." --Mark 9:15
How great the difference between Moses and Jesus! When the prophet of Horeb
had been forty days upon the mountain, he underwent a kind of transfiguration,
so that his countenance shone with exceeding brightness, and he put a veil over
his face, for the people could not endure to look upon his glory. Not so our
Saviour. He had been transfigured with a greater glory than that of Moses, and
yet, it is not written that the people were blinded by the blaze of His
countenance, but rather they were amazed, and running to Him they saluted Him.
The glory of the law repels, but the greater glory of Jesus attracts. Though
Jesus is holy and just, yet blended with His purity there is so much of truth
and grace, that sinners run to Him amazed at His goodness, fascinated by His
love; they salute Him, become His disciples, and take Him to be their Lord and
Master. Reader, it may be that just now you are blinded by the dazzling
brightness of the law of God. You feel its claims on your conscience, but you
cannot keep it in your life. Not that you find fault with the law, on the
contrary, it commands your profoundest esteem, still you are in nowise drawn by
it to God; you are rather hardened in heart, and are verging towards
desperation. Ah, poor heart! turn thine eye from Moses, with all his repelling
splendour, and look to Jesus, resplendent with milder glories. Behold His
flowing wounds and thorn-crowned head! He is the Son of God, and therein He is
greater than Moses, but He is the Lord of love, and therein more tender than the
lawgiver. He bore the wrath of God, and in His death revealed more of God's
justice than Sinai on a blaze, but that justice is now vindicated, and
henceforth it is the guardian of believers in Jesus. Look, sinner, to the
bleeding Saviour, and as thou feelest the attraction of His love, fly to His
arms, and thou shalt be saved.
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