Monday, March 16, 2009

He is Precious

1 Peter 2:7
He is precious.


As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved. The glances of His eyes outshine the sun: the beauties of His face are fairer than the choicest flowers: no fragrance is like the breath of His mouth. Gems of the mine, and pearls from the sea, are worthless things when measured by His preciousness. Peter tells us that Jesus is precious, but he did not and could not tell us how precious, nor could any of us compute the value of God's unspeakable gift. Words cannot set forth the preciousness of the Lord Jesus to His people, nor fully tell how essential He is to their satisfaction and happiness. Believer, have you not found in the midst of plenty a sore famine if your Lord has been absent? The sun was shining, but Christ had hidden Himself, and all the world was black to you; or it was night, and since the bright and morning star was gone, no other star could yield you so much as a ray of light. What a howling wilderness is this world without our Lord! If once He hideth Himself from us, withered are the flowers of our garden; our pleasant fruits decay; the birds suspend their songs, and a tempest overturns our hopes. All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life. Dear reader, what wouldst thou do in the world without Him, when thou wakest up and lookest forward to the day's battle? What wouldst thou do at night, when thou comest home jaded and weary, if there were no door of fellowship between thee and Christ? Blessed be His name, He will not suffer us to try our lot without Him, for Jesus never forsakes His own. Yet, let the thought of what life would be without Him enhance His preciousness.

Devotional by Charles Spurgeon

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Spurgeon is so good I really like his devotionals.

Joyfulsister said...

Hi Sis,
Thank you for always brightening up my spirit when you visit. I needed a little lift of Love today
((((Hugz))). Don't you just love
the wisdom of Charles Spurgeon. I will have to write this post down and tuck it in my journal. what beautiful words. Do you have a book of his that has writing like these in it?

Luv ya Lorie

Mimi said...

Life without Christ would be no life at all...
wonderful post...thank you Cathy...

Maxine said...

No one says it like Spurgeon.

Maggie Ann said...

I loved this post. How refreshing and true. I'm over visiting from Saija's blog and am blessed. Thank you. The perfect thoughts to go along with my morning oatmeal...=)