Evening, December 17

Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings

"I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall
   go in and out, and find pasture."

  John 10:9

   Jesus, the great I AM, is the entrance into the true church, and the
   way of access to God himself. He gives to the man who comes to God by
   him four choice privileges.

   1. He shall be saved. The fugitive manslayer passed the gate of the
   city of refuge, and was safe. Noah entered the door of the ark, and was
   secure. None can be lost who take Jesus as the door of faith to their
   souls. Entrance through Jesus into peace is the guarantee of entrance
   by the same door into heaven. Jesus is the only door, an open door, a
   wide door, a safe door; and blessed is he who rests all his hope of
   admission to glory upon the crucified Redeemer.

   2. He shall go in. He shall be privileged to go in among the divine
   family, sharing the children's bread, and participating in all their
   honours and enjoyments. He shall go in to the chambers of communion, to
   the banquets of love, to the treasures of the covenant, to the
   storehouses of the promises. He shall go in unto the King of kings in
   the power of the Holy Spirit, and the secret of the Lord shall be with
   him.

   3. He shall go out. This blessing is much forgotten. We go out into the
   world to labour and suffer, but what a mercy to go in the name and
   power of Jesus! We are called to bear witness to the truth, to cheer
   the disconsolate, to warn the careless, to win souls, and to glorify
   God; and as the angel said to Gideon, "Go in this thy might," even thus
   the Lord would have us proceed as his messengers in his name and
   strength.

   4. He shall find pasture. He who knows Jesus shall never want. Going in
   and out shall be alike helpful to him: in fellowship with God he shall
   grow, and in watering others he shall be watered. Having made Jesus his
   all, he shall find all in Jesus. His soul shall be as a watered garden,
   and as a well of water whose waters fail not.