Morning Meditation - July 19, 2016

[Book of Jeremiah]

Then Moses said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory! Oh! That men today would make the same request unto God! Moses didn't ask for wealth, fame or power. Moses request unto God was standing firmly on the pinnacle of faith. His desire was for the heavenly vision of God's glory. Not what lay at the foot of the mountain where God's people waited below. Why was it that Moses went up to the mountain alone? Why didn't the people want the same one on one encounter with God that Moses sought to have? Many claim to love God but few are willing to climb to the summit of faith and know Him. The rough side of the mountain is where God is. It is through many trials and tribulations that the child of God comes to know the Lord intimately. It isn't until our faith is tested that we obtain our testimony of how God saw us through it.

Today's morning meditation on Charles Spurgeon's Archives ignites a desire to go the distance and follow the Lord wherever He may lead.

Tuesday, July 19, 2016
This Morning's Meditation
C. H. Spurgeon


"The Lord our God hath shewed us His glory."—Deuteronomy 5:24.

OD'S great design in all His works is the manifestation of His own glory. Any aim less than this were unworthy of Himself. But how shall the glory of God be manifested to such fallen creatures as we are? Man's eye is not single, he has ever a side glance towards his own honour, has too high an estimate of his own powers, and so is not qualified to behold the glory of the Lord. It is clear, then, that self must stand out of the way, that there may be room for God to be exalted; and this is the reason why He bringeth His people ofttimes into straits and difficulties, that, being made conscious of their own folly and weakness, they may be fitted to behold the majesty of God when He comes forth to work their deliverance. He whose life is one even and smooth path, will see but little of the glory of the Lord, for he has few occasions of self-emptying, and hence, but little fitness for being filled with the revelation of God.

They who navigate little streams and shallow creeks, know but little of the God of tempests; but they who "do business in great waters," these see His "wonders in the deep." Among the huge Atlantic-waves of bereavement, poverty, temptation, and reproach, we learn the power of Jehovah, because we feel the littleness of man. Thank God, then, if you have been led by a rough road: it is this which has given you your experience of God's greatness and lovingkindness. Your troubles have enriched you with a wealth of knowledge to be gained by no other means: your trials have been the cleft of the rock in which Jehovah has set you, as He did His servant Moses, that you might behold His glory as it passed by. Praise God that you have not been left to the darkness and ignorance which continued prosperity might have involved, but that in the great fight of affliction, you have been capacitated for the outshinings of His glory in His wonderful dealings with you.


Meditation for This Morning by C. H. Spurgeon

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Jeremiah 29:11