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Morning and Evening

August 11, Evening

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"Everlasting consolation." — 2 Thessalonians 2:16 · KJV

"Consolation" — there is music in the word; like David's harp, it charms away the evil spirit of melancholy. It was a high honor to Barnabas to be called "the son of consolation"; and it is one of the illustrious names of a greater than Barnabas, for the Lord Jesus is "the consolation of Israel." "Everlasting consolation" — here is the cream of it all, for the eternity of the comfort is its crown and glory. What is this everlasting consolation? It includes a sense of pardoned sin. A Christian has received in his heart the Spirit's witness that his iniquities are put away like a cloud, his transgressions like a thick cloud. If sin is pardoned, is that not an everlasting consolation? Next, the Lord gives His people an abiding sense of acceptance in Christ. The Christian knows that God looks on him as standing in union with Jesus, and union with the risen Lord is a comfort of the most lasting kind — everlasting, in fact. Let sickness lay us low: have we not seen hundreds of believers as happy in the weakness of disease as they would have been in blooming health? Let death's arrows pierce us to the heart: our comfort does not die, for how often have our ears heard the songs of saints rejoicing in their dying moments because the living love of God was shed abroad in their hearts! Yes, a sense of acceptance in the Beloved is an everlasting consolation. More than this, the Christian is convinced of his security. God has promised to save those who trust in Christ; the Christian does trust in Christ, and he believes God will be as good as His word and save him. He feels he is safe by virtue of being bound up with the person and work of Jesus.