Spurgeon Meditations

 

With Thee is the fountain of life.

Psa 36 9

There are times in our spiritual experience when human counsel or sympathy or religious ordinances fail to comfort or help us. Why does our gracious God permit this? Perhaps it is because we have been living too much without Him and He therefore takes away everything upon which we have been in the habit of depending that He may drive us to Himself. It is a blessed thing to live at the fountain head. While our skin- bottles are full we are content like Hagar and Ishmael to go into the wilderness; but when those are dry nothing will serve us but "Thou God seest me." We are like the prodigal we love the swine-troughs and forget our Father's house. Remember we can make swine-troughs and husks even out of the forms of religion; they are blessed things but we may put them in God's place and then they are of no value. Anything becomes an idol when it keeps us away from God: even the brazen serpent is to be despised as "Nehushtan if we worship it instead of God. Theprodigal was never safer than when he was driven to his father'sbosom, because he could find sustenance nowhere else. Our Lordfavours us with a famine in the land that it may make us seekafter Himself the more. The best position for a Christian isliving wholly and directly on God's grace--still abiding wherehe stood at first-- Having nothing and yet possessing all things." Let us never for a moment think that our standing is in our sanctification our mortification our graces or our feelings but know that because Christ offered a full atonement therefore we are saved; for we are complete in Him. Having nothing of our own to trust to but resting upon the merits of Jesus--His passion and holy life furnish us with the only sure ground of confidence. Beloved when we are brought to a thirsting condition we are sure to turn to the fountain of life with eagerness.


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