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Morning and Evening

February 26, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"Salvation is of the Lord." — Jonah 2:9 · KJV

Salvation is the work of God. It is He alone who quickens the soul "dead in trespasses and sins," and He alone who maintains the soul in its spiritual life. He is both "Alpha and Omega." "Salvation is of the Lord." If I am prayerful, God makes me prayerful; if I have graces, they are God's gifts to me; if I hold on in a consistent life, it is because He upholds me by His hand. I do nothing whatever toward my own preservation except what God Himself first works in me. Whatever good I have is of the Lord alone. My sin is my own; but wherever I act rightly, that is of God, wholly and completely. If I have repulsed a spiritual enemy, the Lord's strength nerved my arm. Do I live a consecrated life before men? It is not I, but Christ who lives in me. Am I sanctified? I did not cleanse myself; God's Holy Spirit sanctifies me. Am I weaned from the world? I am weaned by God's chastisements, sanctified for my good. Do I grow in knowledge? The great Instructor teaches me. All my jewels were fashioned by heavenly art. I find in God all that I want, but I find in myself nothing but sin and misery. "He only is my rock and my salvation." Do I feed on the Word? That Word would be no food for me unless the Lord made it food for my soul and helped me to feed on it. Do I live on the manna that comes down from heaven? What is that manna but Jesus Christ Himself incarnate, whose body and blood I eat and drink? Am I continually receiving fresh strength? Where do I gather my might? My help comes from heaven's hills; without Jesus I can do nothing. As a branch cannot bear fruit unless it abides in the vine, no more can I, unless I abide in Him. What Jonah learned in the great deep, let me learn this morning in my closet: "Salvation is of the Lord."