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Morning and Evening

August 4, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"The people that do know their God shall be strong." — Daniel 11:32 · KJV

Every believer understands that to know God is the highest and best form of knowledge, and that this spiritual knowledge is a source of strength. It strengthens faith. Believers are spoken of throughout Scripture as people enlightened and taught of the Lord; they are said to "have an unction from the Holy One," and it is the Spirit's own office to lead them into all truth, all for the fostering of their faith. Knowledge strengthens love as well as faith. It opens the door, and through that door we see our Savior; or, to change the figure, knowledge paints the portrait of Jesus, and seeing it, we love Him. We cannot love a Christ we do not know, at least in some degree; if we know little of His excellences — what He has done for us and is doing now — we cannot love Him much, but the more we know Him, the more we shall love Him. Knowledge strengthens hope, too. How can we hope for a thing if we do not know it exists? Hope may be the telescope, but until we are taught, our own ignorance stands before the glass and we see nothing; knowledge removes the obstruction, and looking through the clear lens we discern the glory to be revealed and look for it with joyful confidence. Knowledge also supplies reasons for patience. How shall we be patient unless we know something of the sympathy of Christ, and understand the good that is to come out of the correction our heavenly Father sends? There is not one grace of the Christian that holy knowledge, under God, will not foster and bring toward perfection. How important, then, that we grow not only in grace, but in the "knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."