Evening, April 21

Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings

"Who is even at the right hand of God."

  Romans 8:34

   He who was once despised and rejected of men, now occupies the
   honourable position of a beloved and honoured Son. The right hand of
   God is the place of majesty and favour. Our Lord Jesus is his people's
   representative. When he died for them, they had rest; he rose again for
   them, they had liberty; when he sat down at his Father's right hand,
   they had favour, and honour, and dignity. The raising and elevation of
   Christ is the elevation, the acceptance, and enshrinement, the
   glorifying of all his people, for he is their head and representative.
   This sitting at the right hand of God, then, is to be viewed as the
   acceptance of the person of the Surety, the reception of the
   Representative, and therefore, the acceptance of our souls. O saint,
   see in this thy sure freedom from condemnation. "Who is he that
   condemneth?" Who shall condemn the men who are in Jesus at the right
   hand of God?

   The right hand is the place of power. Christ at the right hand of God
   hath all power in heaven and in earth. Who shall fight against the
   people who have such power vested in their Captain? O my soul, what can
   destroy thee if Omnipotence be thy helper? If the aegis of the Almighty
   cover thee, what sword can smite thee? Rest thou secure. If Jesus is
   thine all-prevailing King, and hath trodden thine enemies beneath his
   feet; if sin, death, and hell are all vanquished by him, and thou art
   represented in him, by no possibility canst thou be destroyed.


   "Jesu's tremendous name

   Puts all our foes to flight:

   Jesus, the meek, the angry Lamb,

   A Lion is in fight.

   "By all hell's host withstood;

   We all hell's host o'erthrow;

   And conquering them, through Jesu's blood

   We still to conquer go."