Evening, August 22
Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings
Ephesians 3:8
"The unsearchable riches of Christ."
Ephesians 3:8
My Master has riches beyond the count of arithmetic, the measurement of
reason, the dream of imagination, or the eloquence of words. They are
unsearchable! You may look, and study, and weigh, but Jesus is a
greater Saviour than you think him to be when your thoughts are at the
greatest. My Lord is more ready to pardon than you to sin, more able to
forgive than you to transgress. My Master is more willing to supply
your wants than you are to confess them. Never tolerate low thoughts of
my Lord Jesus. When you put the crown on his head, you will only crown
him with silver when he deserves gold. My Master has riches of
happiness to bestow upon you now. He can make you to lie down in green
pastures, and lead you beside still waters. There is no music like the
music of his pipe, when he is the Shepherd and you are the sheep, and
you lie down at his feet. There is no love like his, neither earth nor
heaven can match it. To know Christ and to be found in him--oh! this is
life, this is joy, this is marrow and fatness, wine on the lees well
refined. My Master does not treat his servants churlishly; he gives to
them as a king giveth to a king; he gives them two heavens--a heaven
below in serving him here, and a heaven above in delighting in him
forever. His unsearchable riches will be best known in eternity. He
will give you on the way to heaven all you need; your place of defence
shall be the munitions of rocks, your bread shall be given you, and
your waters shall be sure; but it is there, there, where you shall hear
the song of them that triumph, the shout of them that feast, and shall
have a face-to-face view of the glorious and beloved One. The
unsearchable riches of Christ! This is the tune for the minstrels of
earth, and the song for the harpers of heaven. Lord, teach us more and
more of Jesus, and we will tell out the good news to others.