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Morning and Evening

November 4, Evening

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"In Thy light shall we see light." — Psalm 36:9 · KJV

No lips can tell the love of Christ to the heart until Jesus Himself speaks within. All descriptions fall flat and tame unless the Holy Spirit fills them with life and power; until our Immanuel reveals Himself within, the soul does not see Him. If you would see the sun, would you gather together the common means of illumination and try that way to behold the orb of day? No; the wise man knows that the sun must reveal itself, and only by its own blaze can that mighty lamp be seen. So it is with Christ. "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona," He said to Peter, "for flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee." Purify flesh and blood by any educational process you please, raise the mental faculties to the highest degree of intellectual power, and still none of these can reveal Christ. The Spirit of God must come with power, and overshadow the man with His wings; and then, in that mystic holy of holies, the Lord Jesus displays Himself to the sanctified eye, as He does not to the dim-sighted sons of men. Christ must be His own mirror. The great mass of this bleary-eyed world can see nothing of the ineffable glories of Immanuel. He stands before them without form or comeliness, a root out of dry ground, rejected by the vain and despised by the proud. Only where the Spirit has touched the eye with eye-salve, quickened the heart with divine life, and trained the soul to a heavenly taste — only there is He understood. "To you that believe He is precious"; to you He is the chief cornerstone, the Rock of your salvation, your all in all; but to others He is "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence." Happy are those to whom our Lord manifests Himself, for His promise to such is that He will make His abode with them. O Jesus, our Lord, our heart is open — come in, and go out no more for ever! Show Yourself to us now; favor us with a glimpse of Your all-conquering charms.