Evening, March 26

Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings

"When he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

  Mark 8:38

   If we have been partakers with Jesus in his shame, we shall be sharers
   with him in the lustre which shall surround him when he appears again
   in glory. Art thou, beloved one, with Christ Jesus? Does a vital union
   knit thee to him? Then thou art today with him in his shame; thou hast
   taken up his cross, and gone with him without the camp bearing his
   reproach; thou shalt doubtless be with him when the cross is exchanged
   for the crown. But judge thyself this evening; for if thou art not with
   him in the regeneration, neither shalt thou be with him when he shall
   come in his glory. If thou start back from the black side of communion,
   thou shalt not understand its bright, its happy period, when the King
   shall come, and all his holy angels with him. What! are angels with
   him? And yet he took not up angels--he took up the seed of Abraham. Are
   the holy angels with him? Come, my soul, if thou art indeed his own
   beloved, thou canst not be far from him. If his friends and his
   neighbours are called together to see his glory, what thinkest thou if
   thou art married to him? Shalt thou be distant? Though it be a day of
   judgment, yet thou canst not be far from that heart which, having
   admitted angels into intimacy, has admitted thee into union. Has he not
   said to thee, O my soul, "I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness,
   and in judgment, and in lovingkindness?" Have not his own lips said it,
   "I am married unto thee, and my delight is in thee?" If the angels, who
   are but friends and neighbours, shall be with him, it is abundantly
   certain that his own beloved Hephzibah, in whom is all his delight,
   shall be near to him, and sit at his right hand. Here is a morning star
   of hope for thee, of such exceeding brilliance, that it may well light
   up the darkest and most desolate experience.