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A Spurgeon Devotion:
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for Christ with Strength from Heavenly Food |
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1 Kings 19:8
He arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the
strength of that meat forty days and forty nights. |
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our gracious God is meant for service, not for wantonness or
boasting. When the prophet Elijah found the cake baked on the
coals, and the cruse of water placed at his head, as he lay under
the juniper tree, he was no gentleman to be gratified with dainty
fare that he might stretch himself at his ease; far otherwise, he
was commissioned to go forty days and forty nights in the strength
of it, journeying towards Horeb, the mount of God. When the Master
invited the disciples to "Come and dine" with Him, after
the feast was concluded He said to Peter, "Feed my
sheep"; further adding, "Follow me." Even thus it
is with us; we eat the bread of heaven, that we may expend our
strength in the Master's service. We come to the passover, and eat
of the paschal lamb with loins girt, and staff in hand, so as to
start off at once when we have satisfied our hunger. Some
Christians are for living on Christ, but are not so anxious to
live for Christ. Earth should be a preparation for heaven; and
heaven is the place where saints feast most and work most. They
sit down at the table of our Lord, and they serve Him day and
night in His temple. They eat of heavenly food and render perfect
service. Believer, in the strength you daily gain from Christ
labour for Him. Some of us have yet to learn much concerning the
design of our Lord in giving us His grace. We are not to retain
the precious grains of truth as the Egyptian mummy held the wheat
for ages, without giving it an opportunity to grow: we must sow it
and water it. Why does the Lord send down the rain upon the
thirsty earth, and give the genial sunshine? Is it not that these
may all help the fruits of the earth to yield food for man? Even
so the Lord feeds and refreshes our souls that we may afterwards
use our renewed strength in the promotion of His glory. (from
Morning Devotions, October 5th.) |
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