October 20 Daily Devotional

Bible Reading

Titus 3:1–7

Devotional

How sweet it is to feast your eyes on the Saviour communing with his own beloved people! There can be nothing more delightful than to be led by the Holy Spirit into this fertile field of delight.

If you let your mind consider for a moment the history of the Redeemer’s love, a thousand enchanting acts of affection will suggest themselves. Each of them has for its aim the weaving of the heart into Christ, and the intertwining of the thoughts and emotions of the renewed soul with the mind of Jesus. When we meditate on this amazing love and behold the all-glorious Kinsman-Redeemer of the church endowing her with all his ancient wealth, our souls may well faint for joy. Who is it who can endure such a weight of love? That partial sense of it that the Holy Spirit is sometimes pleased to grant is more than the soul can contain. How transporting must be a complete view of it!

When the soul finally has understanding to discern all the Saviour’s gifts, wisdom with which to value them, and time in which to meditate upon them—such as the world to come will allow us–then we will 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 of which “it is written: ‘What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived’—the things God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Cor. 2:9).

Oh, to peek into our Joseph’s granaries and see the plenty that he has stored up for us! This will overwhelm us with love. By faith we see, as in a mirror dimly, the reflected image of his boundless treasures. But when we actually see the heavenly things themselves with our own eyes, how deep will be the stream of fellowship in which our soul will bathe itself! Till then our loudest sonnets will be reserved for our loving Benefactor, Jesus Christ our Lord, whose love to us is “wonderful, more wonderful than that of women” (2 Sam. 1:6).

[June 4, morning]

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