Morning & Evening Devotional Reading–

August 22– Evening

by C. H. Spurgeon, revised and edited by W. C. Neff

“The unsearchable riches of Christ.”

—Ephesians 3:8

My Master has riches beyond the count of arithmetic, the measurement of reason, the dream of imagination, or the eloquence of words. They are unsearchable! You may look, and study, and weigh, but Jesus is a greater Savior than you think him to be when your thoughts are at their greatest. My Lord is more ready to pardon than you to sin, more able to forgive than you to transgress. My Master is more willing to supply your wants than you are to confess them.

Never tolerate low thoughts of the Lord Jesus. When you make a crown for his head, don’t make it out of silver when he deserves gold. My Master has riches of happiness to bestow upon you now. He can make you to lie down in green pastures and lead you beside still waters. There is no music like the music of his flute when he is the Shepherd and you are the sheep and you lie down at his feet.

There is no love like his. Neither earth nor heaven can match it. To know Christ and to be found in him– oh, this is life! This is joy. This is wine well refined. My Master does not treat his servants with stinginess; he gives to them as a king gives to a king; he gives them two heavens: a heaven below in serving him here and a heaven above in delighting in him forever. On the way to heaven, he will give you all you need; your defense will be in the rocks. Your bread will be given to you, and your water will be provided. Then, in heaven, you will hear the song of them that triumph, the shout of them that feast, and you will have a face-to-face view of the glorious and lovely One.

The unsearchable riches of Christ! This is the song of musicians in both earth and heaven. Lord, teach us more and more of Jesus, and we will shout out the good news to others. [M&E]