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Morning and Evening

May 9, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"Who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings." — Ephesians 1:3 · KJV

All the goodness of the past, the present, and the future Christ bestows on His people. In the mysterious ages of the past the Lord Jesus was His Father's first chosen, and in His election He gave us a share, for we were chosen in Him before the foundation of the world. From all eternity He held the privileges of sonship as His Father's only-begotten and well-beloved Son, and in the riches of His grace He has, by adoption and new birth, lifted us into sonship too, giving us "power to become the sons of God." The eternal covenant, resting on His pledge and confirmed by oath, is ours, for our strong comfort and security. In the everlasting arrangements of predestinating wisdom and almighty decree, the eye of the Lord Jesus was always fixed on us; and we may rest assured that in the whole scroll of destiny there is not one line that works against the interests of His redeemed. The great betrothal of the Prince of Glory is ours, for it is to us that He is pledged, as the sacred wedding will before long announce to a gathered universe. The marvelous incarnation of the God of heaven, with all the amazing condescension and humbling that came with it, is ours. His agony, His suffering, His cross are ours forever. Whatever blessed consequences flow from perfect obedience, finished atonement, resurrection, ascension, or intercession, all of them are ours by His own gift. He is bearing our names now on His breastplate, and in His authoritative pleading at the throne He remembers who we are and argues our case. His rule over principalities and powers and His absolute majesty in heaven He uses for the benefit of those who trust Him. His high estate is as much at our service as His time of humiliation was. He who gave Himself for us in the depths of sorrow and death does not withdraw the gift now that He is enthroned in the highest heavens.