Evening, October 21
Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings
Luke 24:38
"Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?"
Luke 24:38
"Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest O Israel, my way is hid from
the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?" The Lord cares
for all things, and the meanest creatures share in his universal
providence, but his particular providence is over his saints. "The
angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him." "Precious
shall their blood be in his sight." "Precious in the sight of the Lord
is the death of his saints." "We know that all things work together for
good to them that love God, to them that are the called according to
his purpose." Let the fact that, while he is the Saviour of all men, he
is specially the Saviour of them that believe, cheer and comfort you.
You are his peculiar care; his regal treasure which he guards as the
apple of his eye; his vineyard over which he watches day and night.
"The very hairs of your head are all numbered." Let the thought of his
special love to you be a spiritual pain-killer, a dear quietus to your
woe: "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." God says that as much
to you as to any saint of old. "Fear not, I am thy shield, and thy
exceeding great reward." We lose much consolation by the habit of
reading his promises for the whole church, instead of taking them
directly home to ourselves. Believer, grasp the divine word with a
personal, appropriating faith. Think that you hear Jesus say, "I have
prayed for thee that thy faith fail not." Think you see him walking on
the waters of thy trouble, for he is there, and he is saying, "Fear
not, it is I; be not afraid." Oh, those sweet words of Christ! May the
Holy Ghost make you feel them as spoken to you; forget others for
awhile--accept the voice of Jesus as addressed to you, and say, "Jesus
whispers consolation; I cannot refuse it; I will sit under his shadow
with great delight."