Spurgeon Meditations

 

We would see Jesus.

Joh 12 21

Evermore the worldling's cry is Who will show us any good?" He seeks satisfaction in earthly comforts enjoyments and riches. But the quickened sinner knows of only one good. "O that I knew where I might find HIM!" When he is truly awakened to feel his guilt if you could pour the gold of India at his feet he would say Take it away: I want to find HIM. It is a blessed thing for a man when he has brought his desires into a focus so that they all centre in one object. When he has fifty different desires his heart resembles a mere of stagnant water spread out into a marsh breeding miasma and pestilence; but when all his desires are brought into one channel his heart becomes like a river of pure water running swiftly to fertilize the fields. Happy is he who hath one desire if that one desire be set on Christ though it may not yet have been realized. If Jesus be a soul's desire it is a blessed sign of divine work within. Such a man will never be content with mere ordinances. He will say I want Christ; I must have Him--mere ordinancesare of no use to me; I want Himself; do not offer me these;you offer me the empty pitcher, while I am dying of thirst; giveme water, or I die. Jesus is my soul's desire. I would seeJesus! Is this thy condition my reader at this moment? Hast thou but one desire and is that after Christ? Then thou art not far from the kingdom of heaven. Hast thou but one wish in thy heart and that one wish that thou mayst be washed from all thy sins in Jesus' blood? Canst thou really say I would give all I have tobe a Christian; I would give up everything I have and hope for,if I might but feel that I have an interest in Christ ? Then despite all thy fears be of good cheer the Lord loveth thee and thou shalt come out into daylight soon and rejoice in the liberty wherewith Christ makes men free.


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