Morning, July 27
Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings
2 Peter 1:4
"Exceeding great and precious promises."
2 Peter 1:4
If you would know experimentally the preciousness of the promises, and
enjoy them in your own heart, meditate much upon them. There are
promises which are like grapes in the wine-press; if you will tread
them the juice will flow. Thinking over the hallowed words will often
be the prelude to their fulfilment. While you are musing upon them, the
boon which you are seeking will insensibly come to you. Many a
Christian who has thirsted for the promise has found the favour which
it ensured gently distilling into his soul even while he has been
considering the divine record; and he has rejoiced that ever he was led
to lay the promise near his heart.
But besides meditating upon the promises, seek in thy soul to receive
them as being the very words of God. Speak to thy soul thus, "If I were
dealing with a man's promise, I should carefully consider the ability
and the character of the man who had covenanted with me. So with the
promise of God; my eye must not be so much fixed upon the greatness of
the mercy--that may stagger me; as upon the greatness of the
promiser--that will cheer me. My soul, it is God, even thy God, God
that cannot lie, who speaks to thee. This word of his which thou art
now considering is as true as his own existence. He is a God
unchangeable. He has not altered the thing which has gone out of his
mouth, nor called back one single consolatory sentence. Nor doth he
lack any power; it is the God that made the heavens and the earth who
has spoken thus. Nor can he fail in wisdom as to the time when he will
bestow the favours, for he knoweth when it is best to give and when
better to withhold. Therefore, seeing that it is the word of a God so
true, so immutable, so powerful, so wise, I will and must believe the
promise." If we thus meditate upon the promises, and consider the
Promiser, we shall experience their sweetness, and obtain their
fulfilment.