Morning & Evening Devotional Reading–

July 27– Morning

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

“Exceedingly great and precious promises.” 

—2 Peter 1:4

If you want to experience the preciousness of God’s promises and enjoy them in your own heart, then meditate on them a lot. Promises are like grapes in the winepress— when you walk on them the juice will flow. Thinking over his words and weighing them carefully will often be the prelude to their fulfillment. While you ponder them, the breakthrough you’ve been seeking will come to you.

But besides meditating upon the promises, seek in your soul to receive them as being the very words of God. And remember how important it is to give weight to a promise according to a man’s ability and character. Your eye shouldn’t be so taken with the promise itself and the greatness of the mercy—- which is staggering enough— but you should focus on the greatness of the Promiser himself. It is God, even our God, that cannot lie, and he is the One speaking. His work is as true as his own existence. He is a God unchangeable. He has not altered his word, nor called back one single consoling sentence. He lacks no power to fulfill his word either; he is the God who made the heavens and the earth. In his unfailing wisdom, he even knows the best timing to give his gifts to us and when to withhold them.

Therefore, seeing that God’s word is so true, so unchangeable, so powerful, so wise; I will and must believe his promise. If we meditate upon his promises like this and consider the nature and character of the One who promises, we will experience their sweetness and obtain their fulfillment. [M&E]