Evening, July 26

Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings

"That he may set him with princes."

  Psalm 113:8

   Our spiritual privileges are of the highest order. "Among princes" is
   the place of select society. "Truly our fellowship is with the Father,
   and with his Son Jesus Christ." Speak of select society, there is none
   like this! "We are a chosen generation, a peculiar people, a royal
   priesthood." "We are come unto the general assembly and church of the
   first-born, whose names are written in heaven." The saints have courtly
   audience: princes have admittance to royalty when common people must
   stand afar off. The child of God has free access to the inner courts of
   heaven. "For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the
   Father." "Let us come boldly," says the apostle, "to the throne of the
   heavenly grace." Among princes there is abundant wealth, but what is
   the abundance of princes compared with the riches of believers? for
   "all things are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's." "He
   that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall
   he not with him also freely give us all things?" Princes have peculiar
   power. A prince of heaven's empire has great influence: he wields a
   sceptre in his own domain; he sits upon Jesus' throne, for "He hath
   made us kings and priests unto God, and we shall reign forever and
   ever." We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity. Princes,
   again, have special honour. We may look down upon all earth-born
   dignity from the eminence upon which grace has placed us. For what is
   human grandeur to this, "He hath raised us up together, and made us sit
   together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus"? We share the honour of
   Christ, and compared with this, earthly splendours are not worth a
   thought. Communion with Jesus is a richer gem than ever glittered in
   imperial diadem. Union with the Lord is a coronet of beauty outshining
   all the blaze of imperial pomp.