Spurgeon Meditations

 

Good Master.

Mat 19 16

If the young man in the gospel used this title in speaking to our Lord how much more fitly may I thus address Him! He is indeed my Master in both senses a ruling Master and a teaching Master. I delight to run upon His errands and to sit at His feet. I am both His servant and His disciple and count it my highest honour to own the double character. If He should ask me why I call Him "good I should have a ready answer. It istrue that there is none good but one that is God but thenHe is God, and all the goodness of Deity shines forth in Him. Inmy experience, I have found Him good, so good, indeed, that allthe good I have has come to me through Him. He was good to mewhen I was dead in sin, for He raised me by His Spirit's power;He has been good to me in all my needs, trials, struggles, andsorrows. Never could there be a better Master, for His serviceis freedom, His rule is love: I wish I were one thousandth partas good a servant. When He teaches me as my Rabbi, He isunspeakably good, His doctrine is divine, His manner iscondescending, His spirit is gentleness itself. No error mingleswith His instruction--pure is the golden truth which He bringsforth, and all His teachings lead to goodness, sanctifying aswell as edifying the disciple. Angels find Him a good Master anddelight to pay their homage at His footstool. The ancient saintsproved Him to be a good Master, and each of them rejoiced tosing, I am Thy servant O Lord!" My own humble testimony must certainly be to the same effect. I will bear this witness before my friends and neighbours for possibly they may be led by my testimony to seek my Lord Jesus as their Master. O that they would do so! They would never repent so wise a deed. If they would but take His easy yoke they would find themselves in so royal a service that they would enlist in it for ever.


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