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Morning and Evening

January 23, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"I have exalted one chosen out of the people." — Psalm 89:19 · KJV

Why was Christ chosen out of the people? Speak, my heart, for heart-thoughts are best. Was it not that He might be our brother, in the blessed tie of kindred blood? Oh, what a relationship there is between Christ and the believer! The believer can say, "I have a Brother in heaven. I may be poor, but I have a Brother who is rich, who is a King — and will He let me want while He is on His throne? Oh no! He loves me; He is my Brother." Believer, wear this blessed thought like a necklace of diamonds around the neck of your memory; put it like a golden ring on the finger of recollection, and use it as the King's own seal, stamping the requests of your faith with confidence of success. He is a brother born for adversity — treat Him as such. Christ was also chosen out of the people that He might know our needs and sympathize with us: "He was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin." In all our sorrows we have His sympathy. Temptation, pain, disappointment, weakness, weariness, poverty — He knows them all, for He has felt them all. Remember this, Christian, and let it comfort you. However hard and painful your road, it is marked by the footsteps of your Savior; and even when you reach the dark valley of the shadow of death and the deep waters of the swelling Jordan, you will find His footprints there. Wherever we go, He has been our forerunner; every burden we have to carry was once laid on the shoulders of Immanuel. His way was far rougher and darker than mine — did Christ my Lord suffer, and shall I complain? Take courage! Royal feet have left a blood-red track along the road and consecrated the thorny path forever.