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Charles Spurgeon's Daily DevotionalThis morning devotional prepared for June, 24th.
"A certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said
unto Him, Blessed is the womb that bare Thee, and the paps which
thou hast sucked. But He said, Yea rather, blessed are they that
hear the word of God, and keep it."--Luke 11:27, 28
It is fondly imagined by some that it must have involved very
special privileges to have been the mother of our Lord, because
they supposed that she had the benefit of looking into His very
heart in a way in which we cannot hope to do. There may be an
appearance of plausibility in the supposition, but not much. We
do not know that Mary knew more than others; what she did know
she did well to lay up in her heart; but she does not appear
from anything we read in the Evangelists to have been a
better-instructed believer than any other of Christ's disciples.
All that she knew we also may discover. Do you wonder that we
should say so? Here is a text to prove it: "The secret of the
Lord is with them that fear Him, and He will show them His
covenant." Remember the Master's words--"Henceforth I call you
not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth:
but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard
of my Father I have made known unto you." So blessedly does this
Divine Revealer of secrets tell us His heart, that He keepeth
back nothing which is profitable to us; His own assurance is,
"If it were not so, I would have told you." Doth He not this day
manifest Himself unto us as He doth not unto the world? It is
even so; and therefore we will not ignorantly cry out, "Blessed
is the womb that bare thee," but we will intelligently bless God
that, having heard the Word and kept it, we have first of all as
true a communion with the Saviour as the Virgin had, and in the
second place as true an acquaintance with the secrets of His
heart as she can be supposed to have obtained. Happy soul to be
thus privileged!
This afternoon devotional prepared for June, 24th.
"Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said . . . Be it
known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods."--Daniel 3:16, 18
The narrative of the manly courage and marvellous deliverance
of the three holy children, or rather champions, is well
calculated to excite in the minds of believers firmness and
steadfastness in upholding the truth in the teeth of tyranny and
in the very jaws of death. Let young Christians especially
learn from their example, both in matters of faith in religion,
and matters of uprightness in business, never to sacrifice their
consciences. Lose all rather than lose your integrity, and when
all else is gone, still hold fast a clear conscience as the
rarest jewel which can adorn the bosom of a mortal. Be not
guided by the will-o'-the-wisp of policy, but by the pole-star
of divine authority. Follow the right at all hazards. When you
see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God
the honour to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the
sake of principle. See whether He will be your debtor! See if He
doth not even in this life prove His word that "Godliness, with
contentment, is great gain," and that they who "seek first the
kingdom of God and His righteousness, shall have all these
things added unto them." Should it happen that, in the
providence of God, you are a loser by conscience, you shall find
that if the Lord pays you not back in the silver of earthly
prosperity, He will discharge His promise in the gold of
spiritual joy. Remember that a man's life consisteth not in the
abundance of that which he possesseth. To wear a guileless
spirit, to have a heart void of offence, to have the favour and
smile of God, is greater riches than the mines of Ophir could
yield, or the traffic of Tyre could win. "Better is a dinner of
herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and inward contention
therewith." An ounce of heart's-ease is worth a ton of gold.
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