Evening, December 8

Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings

"Thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor."

  Psalm 68:10

   All God's gifts are prepared gifts laid up in store for wants foreseen.
   He anticipates our needs; and out of the fulness which he has treasured
   up in Christ Jesus, he provides of his goodness for the poor. You may
   trust him for all the necessities that can occur, for he has infallibly
   foreknown every one of them. He can say of us in all conditions, "I
   knew that thou wouldst be this and that." A man goes a journey across
   the desert, and when he has made a day's advance, and pitched his tent,
   he discovers that he wants many comforts and necessaries which he has
   not brought in his baggage. "Ah!" says he, "I did not foresee this: if
   I had this journey to go again, I should bring these things with me, so
   necessary to my comfort." But God has marked with prescient eye all the
   requirements of his poor wandering children, and when those needs
   occur, supplies are ready. It is goodness which he has prepared for the
   poor in heart, goodness and goodness only. "My grace is sufficient for
   thee." "As thy days, so shall thy strength be."

   Reader, is your heart heavy this evening? God knew it would be; the
   comfort which your heart wants is treasured in the sweet assurance of
   the text. You are poor and needy, but he has thought upon you, and has
   the exact blessing which you require in store for you. Plead the
   promise, believe it and obtain its fulfilment. Do you feel that you
   never were so consciously vile as you are now? Behold, the crimson
   fountain is open still, with all its former efficacy, to wash your sin
   away. Never shall you come into such a position that Christ cannot aid
   you. No pinch shall ever arrive in your spiritual affairs in which
   Jesus Christ shall not be equal to the emergency, for your history has
   all been foreknown and provided for in Jesus.