Evening, June 11

Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings

"There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and
   the battle."

  Psalm 76:3

   Our Redeemer's glorious cry of "It is finished," was the death-knell of
   all the adversaries of his people, the breaking of "the arrows of the
   bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle." Behold the hero of
   Golgotha using his cross as an anvil, and his woes as a hammer, dashing
   to shivers bundle after bundle of our sins, those poisoned "arrows of
   the bow;" trampling on every indictment, and destroying every
   accusation. What glorious blows the mighty Breaker gives with a hammer
   far more ponderous than the fabled weapon of Thor! How the diabolical
   darts fly to fragments, and the infernal bucklers are broken like
   potters' vessels! Behold, he draws from its sheath of hellish
   workmanship the dread sword of Satanic power! He snaps it across his
   knee, as a man breaks the dry wood of a fagot, and casts it into the
   fire. Beloved, no sin of a believer can now be an arrow mortally to
   wound him, no condemnation can now be a sword to kill him, for the
   punishment of our sin was borne by Christ, a full atonement was made
   for all our iniquities by our blessed Substitute and Surety. Who now
   accuseth? Who now condemneth? Christ hath died, yea rather, hath risen
   again. Jesus has emptied the quivers of hell, has quenched every fiery
   dart, and broken off the head of every arrow of wrath; the ground is
   strewn with the splinters and relics of the weapons of hell's warfare,
   which are only visible to us to remind us of our former danger, and of
   our great deliverance. Sin hath no more dominion over us. Jesus has
   made an end of it, and put it away forever. O thou enemy, destructions
   are come to a perpetual end. Talk ye of all the wondrous works of the
   Lord, ye who make mention of his name, keep not silence, neither by
   day, nor when the sun goeth to his rest. Bless the Lord, O my soul.