September 30 Daily Devotional

Bible Reading

Hebrews 12:18–24

Devotional

Dear reader, have you come to “the sprinkled blood”? The question is not whether you have come to a knowledge of doctrine, or to an observance of ceremonies, or to a certain kind of experience. Rather, have you come to the blood of Jesus?

The blood of Jesus is the life of all vital godliness. If you have truly come to Jesus, we know how you came—the Holy Spirit kindly brought you there. You came to the sprinkled blood with no merits of your own. Guilty, lost, and helpless, you came to take that blood—and that blood alone!—as your everlasting hope. You came to the cross of Christ with a trembling heart, an aching heart—and what a precious sound it was to you to hear the voice of the blood of Jesus!

The dripping of his blood is as the music of heaven to the penitents of earth. We are full of sin, but the Saviour bids us lift our eyes to him; and as we gaze upon his streaming wounds, each drop of blood, as it falls, cries, “It is finished! I have made an end of sin! I have brought in everlasting righteousness.” Sweet language of the precious blood of Jesus!

If you have come to that blood once, then you will come to it constantly. Your whole life will be “looking to Jesus” (Heb. 12:2). Your whole conduct will be epitomized in this—”to whom coming” (1 Pet 2:4). Not just to whom I have come, but also to whom I am always coming. If you have ever come to the sprinkled blood, then you will feel your need of coming to it every day. He who does not desire to wash in it every day has never washed in it at all. Believers constantly feel it to be their joy and privilege that there is still a fountain opened. Past experiences are doubtful food for Christians; a present coming to Christ alone can give us joy and comfort.

This morning let us sprinkle our doorpost fresh with blood, and then feast upon the Lamb, assured that the destroying angel must pass over us (see Exodus 11–12, especially 12:13).

[April 17, morning]

Extracted from C. H. Spurgeon, Morning and Evening (public domain), language modernized by Larry E. Wilson.