Spurgeon Meditations

 

Thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting.

Dan 5 27

It is well frequently to weigh ourselves in the scale of God's Word. You will find it a holy exercise to read some psalm of David and as you meditate upon each verse to ask yourself Can I say this? Have I felt as David felt? Has my heart everbeen broken on account of sin, as his was when he penned hispenitential psalms? Has my soul been full of true confidence inthe hour of difficulty as his was when he sang of God's merciesin the cave of Adullam, or in the holds of Engedi? Do I take thecup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord? Then turn to the life of Christ and as you read ask yourselves how far you are conformed to His likeness. Endeavour to discover whether you have the meekness the humility the lovely spirit which He constantly inculcated and displayed. Take then the epistles and see whether you can go with the apostle in what he said of his experience. Have you ever cried out as he did--"O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death"? Have you ever felt his self-abasement? Have you seemed to yourself the chief of sinners and less than the least of all saints? Have you known anything of his devotion? Could you join with him and say For me to live is Christ, and to die isgain ? If we thus read God's Word as a test of our spiritual condition we shall have good reason to stop many a time and say Lord, I feel I have never yet been here, O bring me here!give me true penitence, such as this I read of. Give me realfaith; give me warmer zeal; inflame me with more fervent love;grant me the grace of meekness; make me more like Jesus. Let meno longer be 'found wanting,' when weighed in the balances ofthe sanctuary, lest I be found wanting in the scales ofjudgment. Judge yourselves that ye be not judged.


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