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Morning and Evening

January 28, Evening

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them." — Luke 2:20 · KJV

What was the subject of their praise? They praised God for what they had heard — the good tidings of great joy that a Savior was born to them. Let us copy them, and raise our own song of thanksgiving that we have heard of Jesus and His salvation. They also praised God for what they had seen. There is the sweetest music: what we have experienced, what we have felt within, what we have made our own. It is not enough to hear about Jesus — mere hearing may tune the harp, but the fingers of living faith must make the music. If you have seen Jesus with the God-given sight of faith, let no cobwebs linger among the harp-strings; wake your psaltery and harp to the loud praise of sovereign grace. One thing for which they praised God was the agreement between what they had heard and what they had seen. Notice the last words: "As it was told unto them." Have you not found the gospel to be in yourself just what the Bible said it would be? Jesus said He would give you rest — have you not enjoyed the sweetest peace in Him? He said you would have joy and comfort and life through believing — have you not received them all? Are not His ways ways of pleasantness, and His paths paths of peace? Surely you can say with the queen of Sheba, "The half has not been told me." I have found Christ sweeter than His servants ever said He was. I looked on His likeness as they painted it, but it was a poor daub compared with Himself, for the King in His beauty outshines all imaginable loveliness. Surely what we have seen keeps pace with — no, far exceeds — what we have heard. Let us then glorify and praise God for a Savior so precious and so satisfying.