Morning, June 4
Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings
Titus 3:4
"The kindness and love of God our Saviour."
Titus 3:4
How sweet it is to behold the Saviour communing with his own beloved
people! There can be nothing more delightful than, by the Divine
Spirit, to be led into this fertile field of delight. Let the mind for
an instant consider the history of the Redeemer's love, and a thousand
enchanting acts of affection will suggest themselves, all of which have
had for their design the weaving of the heart into Christ, and the
intertwisting of the thoughts and emotions of the renewed soul with the
mind of Jesus. When we meditate upon this amazing love, and behold the
all-glorious Kinsman of the Church endowing her with all his ancient
wealth, our souls may well faint for joy. Who is he that can endure
such a weight of love? That partial sense of it which the Holy Spirit
is sometimes pleased to afford, is more than the soul can contain; how
transporting must be a complete view of it! When the soul shall have
understanding to discern all the Saviour's gifts, wisdom wherewith to
estimate them, and time in which to meditate upon them, such as the
world to come will afford us, we shall then commune with Jesus in a
nearer manner than at present. But who can imagine the sweetness of
such fellowship? It must be one of the things which have not entered
into the heart of man, but which God hath prepared for them that love
him. Oh, to burst open the door of our Joseph's granaries, and see the
plenty which he hath stored up for us! This will overwhelm us with
love. By faith we see, as in a glass darkly, the reflected image of his
unbounded treasures, but when we shall actually see the heavenly things
themselves, with our own eyes, how deep will be the stream of
fellowship in which our soul shall bathe itself! Till then our loudest
sonnets shall be reserved for our loving benefactor, Jesus Christ our
Lord, whose love to us is wonderful, passing the love of women.