Spurgeon Meditations

 

I am with you alway.

Mat 28 20

It is well there is One who is ever the same and who is ever with us. It is well there is one stable rock amidst the billows of the sea of life. O my soul set not thine affections upon rusting moth-eaten decaying treasures but set thine heart upon Him who abides for ever faithful to thee. Build not thine house upon the moving quicksands of a deceitful world but found thy hopes upon this rock which amid descending rain and roaring floods shall stand immovably secure. My soul I charge thee lay up thy treasure in the only secure cabinet; store thy jewels where thou canst never lose them. Put thine all in Christ; set all thine affections on His person all thy hope in His merit all thy trust in His efficacious blood all thy joy in His presence and so thou mayest laugh at loss and defy destruction. Remember that all the flowers in the world's garden fade by turns and the day cometh when nothing will be left but the black cold earth. Death's black extinguisher must soon put out thy candle. Oh! how sweet to have sunlight when the candle is gone! The dark flood must soon roll between thee and all thou hast; then wed thine heart to Him who will never leave thee; trust thyself with Him who will go with thee through the black and surging current of death's stream and who will land thee safely on the celestial shore and make thee sit with Him in heavenly places for ever. Go sorrowing son of affliction tell thy secrets to the Friend who sticketh closer than a brother. Trust all thy concerns with Him who never can be taken from thee who will never leave thee and who will never let thee leave Him even "Jesus Christ the same yesterday and to-day and for ever." "Lo I am with you alway is enough formy soul to live upon, let who will forsake me.% 05/12/AM And will manifest myself to him." --John 14:21 The Lord Jesus gives special revelations of Himself to His people. Even if Scripture did not declare this there are many of the children of God who could testify the truth of it from their own experience. They have had manifestations of their Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in a peculiar manner such as no mere reading or hearing could afford. In the biographies of eminent saints you will find many instances recorded in which Jesus has been pleased in a very special manner to speak to their souls and to unfold the wonders of His person; yea so have their souls been steeped in happiness that they have thought themselves to be in heaven whereas they were not there though they were well nigh on the threshold of it--for when Jesus manifests Himself to His people it is heaven on earth; it is paradise in embryo; it is bliss begun. Especial manifestations of Christ exercise a holy influence on the believer's heart. One effect will be humility. If a man says I have hadsuch-and-such spiritual communications, I am a great man, he has never had any communion with Jesus at all; for "God hath respect unto the lowly: but the proud He knoweth afar off." He does not need to come near them to know them and will never give them any visits of love. Another effect will be happiness; for in God's presence there are pleasures for evermore. Holiness will be sure to follow. A man who has no holiness has never had this manifestation. Some men profess a great deal; but we must not believe any one unless we see that his deeds answer to what he says. "Be not deceived; God is not mocked." He will not bestow His favours upon the wicked: for while He will not cast away a perfect man neither will He respect an evil doer. Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus--humility happiness and holiness. May God give them to thee Christian!


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