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Morning and Evening

January 31, Evening

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi." — 2 Samuel 18:23 · KJV

Running is not everything; much depends on the way we choose. A swift foot over hill and dale will not keep pace with a slower traveler on level ground. How is it with my spiritual journey? Am I laboring up the hill of my own works, and down into the ravines of my own humiliations and resolutions, or do I run by the plain way of "Believe and live"? How blessed to wait on the Lord by faith! The soul runs without weariness and walks without fainting in the way of believing. Christ Jesus is the way of life, and He is a plain way, a pleasant way, a way fit for the tottering feet and feeble knees of trembling sinners. Am I found in this way, or am I hunting after some other track that human tradition or philosophy may promise me? I read of the way of holiness, that the wayfaring man, though a fool, shall not err in it: have I been delivered from proud reason and brought as a little child to rest in Jesus' love and blood? If so, by God's grace I shall outrun the strongest runner who chooses any other path. I may remember this to my profit in my daily cares and needs. My wisest course is to go at once to my God, and not wander in a roundabout way to this friend and that. He knows my wants and can relieve them; to whom should I go but to Him, by the direct appeal of prayer and the plain argument of the promise? Straightforward makes the best runner. I will not stop to parley with the servants, but hasten to their Master. And it strikes me that if men strive with one another even in common matters, and one outruns the other, I ought in solemn earnestness so to run that I may obtain. Lord, help me to gird up the loins of my mind, and may I press forward toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.