Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Tuesday March 24, 2020 |
Evening Time: 4:48 PM PST
"In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit." --Luke 10:21
The Saviour was "a man of sorrows," but every thoughtful mind has discovered
the fact that down deep in His innermost soul He carried an inexhaustible
treasury of refined and heavenly joy. Of all the human race, there was never a
man who had a deeper, purer, or more abiding peace than our Lord Jesus Christ.
"He was anointed with the oil of gladness above His fellows." His vast
benevolence must, from the very nature of things, have afforded Him the deepest
possible delight, for benevolence is joy. There were a few remarkable seasons
when this joy manifested itself. "At that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and
said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth." Christ had His songs,
though it was night with Him; though His face was marred, and His countenance
had lost the lustre of earthly happiness, yet sometimes it was lit up with a
matchless splendour of unparalleled satisfaction, as He thought upon the
recompense of the reward, and in the midst of the congregation sang His praise
unto God. In this, the Lord Jesus is a blessed picture of His church on earth.
At this hour the church expects to walk in sympathy with her Lord along a thorny
road; through much tribulation she is forcing her way to the crown. To bear the
cross is her office, and to be scorned and counted an alien by her mother's
children is her lot; and yet the church has a deep well of joy, of which none
can drink but her own children. There are stores of wine, and oil, and corn,
hidden in the midst of our Jerusalem, upon which the saints of God are evermore
sustained and nurtured; and sometimes, as in our Saviour's case, we have our
seasons of intense delight, for "There is a river, the streams whereof shall
make glad the city of our God." Exiles though we be, we rejoice in our King;
yea, in Him we exceedingly rejoice, while in His name we set up our banners.
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