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Morning and Evening

February 1, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"They shall sing in the ways of the Lord." — Psalm 138:5 · KJV

Christians begin to sing in the ways of the Lord when they first lose their burden at the foot of the Cross. Not even the songs of the angels seem as sweet as that first song of rapture which gushes from the inmost soul of the forgiven child of God. You know how John Bunyan describes it: when poor Pilgrim lost his burden at the Cross, he gave three great leaps and went on his way singing the praise of the blessed Cross and the blessed Sepulcher, and still more of the Man who was there put to shame for him. Believer, do you recall the day when your fetters fell off? Do you remember the place where Jesus met you and said, "I have loved thee with an everlasting love; I have blotted out as a cloud thy transgressions, and as a thick cloud thy sins; they shall not be mentioned against thee any more for ever"? Oh, what a sweet season that is, when Jesus takes away the pain of sin! When the Lord first pardoned my sin, I was so full of joy I could scarcely keep from dancing. On my way home from the place where I had been set free, I thought I must tell the very stones in the street the story of my deliverance; my soul was so full that I wanted to tell every snowflake falling from heaven of the wondrous love of Jesus, who had blotted out the sins of one of the chief of rebels. But it is not only at the beginning of the Christian life that believers have reason to sing; as long as they live they find cause to sing in the ways of the Lord, and their experience of His constant lovingkindness leads them to say, "I will bless the Lord at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth." See to it, brother, that you magnify the Lord this day. As long as we tread this desert land, new mercies shall call for new songs.