Spurgeon Meditations

 

There brake He the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle.

Psa 76 3

Our Redeemer's glorious cry of "It is finished was the death-knell of all the adversaries of His people, the breakingof the and the battle." Behold the hero of Golgotha using His cross as an anvil and His woes as a hammer dashing to shivers bundle after bundle of our sins those poisoned "arrows of the bow"; trampling on every indictment and destroying every accusation. What glorious blows the mighty Breaker gives with a hammer far more ponderous than the fabled weapon of Thor! How the diabolical darts fly to fragments and the infernal bucklers are broken like potters' vessels! Behold He draws from its sheath of hellish workmanship the dread sword of Satanic power! He snaps it across His knee as a man breaks the dry wood of a fagot and casts it into the fire. Beloved no sin of a believer can now be an arrow mortally to wound him no condemnation can now be a sword to kill him for the punishment of our sin was borne by Christ a full atonement was made for all our iniquities by our blessed Substitute and Surety. Who now accuseth? Who now condemneth? Christ hath died yea rather hath risen again. Jesus has emptied the quivers of hell has quenched every fiery dart and broken off the head of every arrow of wrath; the ground is strewn with the splinters and relics of the weapons of hell's warfare which are only visible to us to remind us of our former danger and of our great deliverance. Sin hath no more dominion over us. Jesus has made an end of it and put it away for ever. O thou enemy destructions are come to a perpetual end. Talk ye of all the wondrous works of the Lord ye who make mention of His name keep not silence neither by day nor when the sun goeth to his rest. Bless the Lord O my soul.


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