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Morning and Evening

September 22, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"Let Israel rejoice in him." — Psalm 149:2 · KJV

Be glad of heart, O believer, but take care that your gladness has its spring in the Lord. You have much cause for gladness in your God, for you can sing with David, "God, my exceeding joy." Be glad that the Lord reigns, that Yahweh is King! Rejoice that He sits on the throne and rules all things! Every attribute of God should become a fresh ray in the sunlight of our gladness. That He is wise should make us glad, knowing as we do our own foolishness. That He is mighty should make us rejoice, who tremble at our weakness. That He is everlasting should always be a theme of joy, when we know that we wither like the grass. That He is unchanging should perpetually give us a song, since we change every hour. That He is full of grace, overflowing with it, and that He has given this grace to us in covenant — that it is ours to cleanse us, ours to keep us, ours to sanctify us, ours to perfect us, ours to bring us to glory — all this should make us glad in Him. This gladness in God is like a deep river; as yet we have only touched its brink, and know a little of its clear, sweet, heavenly streams; but onward the depth is greater, and the current more impetuous in its joy. The Christian feels that he may delight himself not only in what God is, but in all that God has done in the past. The Psalms show us that God's people of old were used to dwelling much on God's actions, and had a song concerning each of them. So let God's people now rehearse the deeds of the Lord; let them tell of His mighty acts, and "sing unto the Lord, for He hath triumphed gloriously." Nor let them ever cease to sing; for as new mercies flow to them day by day, so should their gladness in the Lord's loving acts, in providence and in grace, show itself in continual thanksgiving. Be glad, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God.