Spurgeon Meditations

 

The people that do know their God shall be strong.

Dan 11 32

Every believer understands that to know God is the highest and best form of knowledge; and this spiritual knowledge is a source of strength to the Christian. It strengthens his faith. Believers are constantly spoken of in the Scriptures as being persons who are enlightened and taught of the Lord; they are said to "have an unction from the Holy One and it is theSpirit's peculiar office to lead them into all truth, and allthis for the increase and the fostering of their faith.Knowledge strengthens love, as well as faith. Knowledge opensthe door, and then through that door we see our Saviour. Or, touse another similitude, knowledge paints the portrait of Jesus,and when we see that portrait then we love Him, we cannot love aChrist whom we do not know, at least, in some degree. If we knowbut little of the excellences of Jesus, what He has done for us,and what He is doing now, we cannot love Him much; but the morewe know Him, the more we shall love Him. Knowledge alsostrengthens hope. How can we hope for a thing if we do notknow of its existence? Hope may be the telescope, but till wereceive instruction, our ignorance stands in the front of theglass, and we can see nothing whatever; knowledge removes theinterposing object, and when we look through the bright opticglass we discern the glory to be revealed, and anticipate itwith joyous confidence. Knowledge supplies us reasons forpatience. How shall we have patience unless we know somethingof the sympathy of Christ, and understand the good which is tocome out of the correction which our heavenly Father sends us?Nor is there one single grace of the Christian which, under God,will not be fostered and brought to perfection by holyknowledge. How important, then, is it that we should grow notonly in grace, but in the knowledge" of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.


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