Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Wednesday November 15, 2017 |
Evening Time: 9:35 PM PST
"Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us." --Psalm 68:28
It is our wisdom, as well as our necessity, to beseech God continually to
strengthen that which He has wrought in us. It is because of their neglect in
this, that many Christians may blame themselves for those trials and afflictions
of spirit which arise from unbelief. It is true that Satan seeks to flood the
fair garden of the heart and make it a scene of desolation, but it is also true
that many Christians leave open the sluice-gates themselves, and let in the
dreadful deluge through carelessness and want of prayer to their strong Helper.
We often forget that the Author of our faith must be the Preserver of it also.
The lamp which was burning in the temple was never allowed to go out, but it had
to be daily replenished with fresh oil; in like manner, our faith can only live
by being sustained with the oil of grace, and we can only obtain this from God
Himself. Foolish virgins we shall prove, if we do not secure the needed
sustenance for our lamps. He who built the world upholds it, or it would fall in
one tremendous crash; He who made us Christians must maintain us by His Spirit,
or our ruin will be speedy and final. Let us, then, evening by evening, go to
our Lord for the grace and strength we need. We have a strong argument to plead,
for it is His own work of grace which we ask Him to strengthen--"that
which Thou hast wrought for us." Think you He will fail to protect and
sustain that? Only let your faith take hold of His strength, and all the powers
of darkness, led on by the master fiend of hell, cannot cast a cloud or shadow
over your joy and peace. Why faint when you may be strong? Why suffer defeat
when you may conquer? Oh! take your wavering faith and drooping graces to Him
who can revive and replenish them, and earnestly pray, "Strengthen, O God, that
which thou hast wrought for us."
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