Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Sunday August 2, 2020 |
Evening Time: 12:33 PM PST
"So she gleaned in the field until even." --Ruth 2:17
Let me learn from Ruth, the gleaner. As she went out to gather the ears of
corn, so must I go forth into the fields of prayer, meditation, the ordinances,
and hearing the word to gather spiritual food. The gleaner gathers her
portion ear by ear; her gains are little by little: so must I be content to
search for single truths, if there be no greater plenty of them. Every ear helps
to make a bundle, and every gospel lesson assists in making us wise unto
salvation. The gleaner keeps her eyes open: if she stumbled among the
stubble in a dream, she would have no load to carry home rejoicingly at
eventide. I must be watchful in religious exercises lest they become
unprofitable to me; I fear I have lost much already--O that I may rightly
estimate my opportunities, and glean with greater diligence. The gleaner
stoops for all she finds, and so must I. High spirits criticize and object,
but lowly minds glean and receive benefit. A humble heart is a great help
towards profitably hearing the gospel. The engrafted soul-saving word is not
received except with meekness. A stiff back makes a bad gleaner; down, master
pride, thou art a vile robber, not to be endured for a moment. What the
gleaner gathers she holds: if she dropped one ear to find another, the
result of her day's work would be but scant; she is as careful to retain as to
obtain, and so at last her gains are great. How often do I forget all that I
hear; the second truth pushes the first out of my head, and so my reading and
hearing end in much ado about nothing! Do I feel duly the importance of storing
up the truth? A hungry belly makes the gleaner wise; if there be no corn in her
hand, there will be no bread on her table; she labours under the sense of
necessity, and hence her tread is nimble and her grasp is firm; I have even a
greater necessity, Lord, help me to feel it, that it may urge me onward to glean
in fields which yield so plenteous a reward to diligence.
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