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Charles Spurgeon's Daily DevotionalThis morning devotional prepared for September, 19th.
"The liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free."--Galatians 5:1
This "liberty" makes us free to heaven's charter--_the
Bible_. Here is a choice passage, believer, "When thou passest
through the rivers, I will be with thee." You are free to that.
Here is another: "The mountains shall depart, and the hills be
removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee"; you are
free to that. You are a welcome guest at the table of the
promises. Scripture is a never-failing treasury filled with
boundless stores of grace. It is the bank of heaven; you may
draw from it as much as you please, without let or hindrance.
Come in faith and you are welcome to all _covenant blessings_.
There is not a promise in the Word which shall be withheld. In
the depths of tribulations let this freedom comfort you; amidst
waves of distress let it cheer you; when sorrows surround thee
let it be thy solace. This is thy Father's love-token; thou art
free to it at all times. Thou art also _free to the throne of
grace_. It is the believer's privilege to have access at all
times to His heavenly Father. Whatever our desires, our
difficulties, our wants, we are at liberty to spread all before
Him. It matters not how much we may have sinned, we may ask and
expect pardon. It signifies nothing how poor we are, we may
plead His promise that He will provide all things needful. We
have permission to approach His throne at all times--in
midnight's darkest hour, or in noontide's most burning heat.
Exercise thy right, O believer, and live up to thy privilege.
Thou art free to all that is treasured up _in Christ_--wisdom,
righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. It matters not
what thy need is, for there is fulness of supply in Christ, and
it is there _for thee_. O what a "freedom" is thine! freedom
from condemnation, freedom to the promises, freedom to the
throne of grace, and at last freedom to enter heaven!
This afternoon devotional prepared for September, 19th.
"For this child I prayed."--1 Samuel 1:27
Devout souls delight to look upon those mercies which they
have obtained in answer to supplication, for they can see God's
especial love in them. When we can name our blessings Samuel,
that is, "asked of God," they will be as dear to us as her child
was to Hannah. Peninnah had many children, but they came as
common blessings unsought in prayer: Hannah's one heaven-given
child was dearer far, because he was the fruit of earnest
pleadings. How sweet was that water to Samson which he found at
"the well of him that prayed!" Quassia cups turn all waters
bitter, but the cup of prayer puts a sweetness into the draughts
it brings. Did we pray for the conversion of our children? How
doubly sweet, when they are saved, to see in them our own
petitions fulfilled! Better to rejoice over them as the fruit of
our pleadings than as the fruit of our bodies. Have we sought of
the Lord some choice spiritual gift? When it comes to us it will
be wrapped up in the gold cloth of God's faithfulness and truth,
and so be doubly precious. Have we petitioned for success in the
Lord's work? How joyful is the prosperity which comes flying
upon the wings of prayer! It is always best to get blessings
into our house in the legitimate way, by the door of prayer;
then they are blessings indeed, and not temptations. Even when
prayer speeds not, the blessings grow all the richer for the
delay; the child Jesus was all the more lovely in the eyes of
Mary when she found Him after having sought Him sorrowing. That
which we win by prayer we should dedicate to God, as Hannah
dedicated Samuel. The gift came from heaven, let it go to
heaven. Prayer brought it, gratitude sang over it, let devotion
consecrate it. Here will be a special occasion for saying, "Of
Thine own have I given unto Thee." Reader, is prayer your
element or your weariness? Which?
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