Evening, January 23
Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings
Song of Solomon 1:4
"We will remember thy love more than wine."
Song of Solomon 1:4
Jesus will not let his people forget his love. If all the love they
have enjoyed should be forgotten, he will visit them with fresh love.
"Do you forget my cross?" says he, "I will cause you to remember it;
for at my table I will manifest myself anew to you. Do you forget what
I did for you in the council-chamber of eternity? I will remind you of
it, for you shall need a counsellor, and shall find me ready at your
call." Mothers do not let their children forget them. If the boy has
gone to Australia, and does not write home, his mother writes--"Has
John forgotten his mother?" Then there comes back a sweet epistle,
which proves that the gentle reminder was not in vain. So is it with
Jesus, he says to us, "Remember me," and our response is, "We will
remember thy love." We will remember thy love and its matchless
history. It is ancient as the glory which thou hadst with the Father
before the world was. We remember, O Jesus, thine eternal love when
thou didst become our Surety, and espouse us as thy betrothed. We
remember the love which suggested the sacrifice of thyself, the love
which, until the fulness of time, mused over that sacrifice, and long
for the hour whereof in the volume of the book it was written of thee,
"Lo, I come." We remember thy love, O Jesus as it was manifest to us in
thy holy life, from the manger of Bethlehem to the garden of
Gethsemane. We track thee from the cradle to the grave--for every word
and deed of thine was love--and we rejoice in thy love, which death did
not exhaust; thy love which shone resplendent in thy resurrection. We
remember that burning fire of love which will never let thee hold thy
peace until thy chosen ones be all safely housed, until Zion be
glorified, and Jerusalem settled on her everlasting foundations of
light and love in heaven.