Morning, August 26

Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings

"He hath commanded his covenant forever."

  Psalms 111:9

   The Lord's people delight in the covenant itself. It is an unfailing
   source of consolation to them so often as the Holy Spirit leads them
   into its banqueting house and waves its banner of love. They delight to
   contemplate the antiquity of that covenant, remembering that before the
   day-star knew its place, or planets ran their round, the interests of
   the saints were made secure in Christ Jesus. It is peculiarly pleasing
   to them to remember the sureness of the covenant, while meditating upon
   "the sure mercies of David." They delight to celebrate it as "signed,
   and sealed, and ratified, in all things ordered well." It often makes
   their hearts dilate with joy to think of its immutability, as a
   covenant which neither time nor eternity, life nor death, shall ever be
   able to violate--a covenant as old as eternity and as everlasting as
   the Rock of ages. They rejoice also to feast upon the fulness of this
   covenant, for they see in it all things provided for them. God is their
   portion, Christ their companion, the Spirit their Comforter, earth
   their lodge, and heaven their home. They see in it an inheritance
   reserved and entailed to every soul possessing an interest in its
   ancient and eternal deed of gift. Their eyes sparkled when they saw it
   as a treasure-trove in the Bible; but oh! how their souls were
   gladdened when they saw in the last will and testament of their divine
   kinsman, that it was bequeathed to them! More especially it is the
   pleasure of God's people to contemplate the graciousness of this
   covenant. They see that the law was made void because it was a covenant
   of works and depended upon merit, but this they perceive to be enduring
   because grace is the basis, grace the condition, grace the strain,
   grace the bulwark, grace the foundation, grace the topstone. The
   covenant is a treasury of wealth, a granary of food, a fountain of
   life, a store-house of salvation, a charter of peace, and a haven of
   joy.