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Morning and Evening

December 24, Evening

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together." — Isaiah 40:5 · KJV

We anticipate the happy day when the whole world shall be converted to Christ; when the false gods of the nations shall be cast to the moles and the bats; when every false system shall fade and pass away, never again to cast its baleful rays on the nations; when kings shall bow before the Prince of Peace, and all nations shall call their Redeemer blessed. Some despair of this. They look on the world as a vessel breaking up and going to pieces, never to float again. We know that the world and all that is in it is one day to be burned up, and afterward we look for new heavens and a new earth; but we cannot read our Bibles without the conviction that Jesus shall reign wherever the sun runs his successive journeys. We are not discouraged by the length of His delays; we are not disheartened by the long period He allots to the church, in which to struggle with little success and much defeat. We believe that God will never suffer this world — which has once seen Christ's blood shed on it — to be always the devil's stronghold. Christ came here to deliver this world from the detested sway of the powers of darkness. What a shout that shall be, when men and angels unite to cry, "Hallelujah, hallelujah, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth!" What a satisfaction it will be, in that day, to have had a share in the fight — to have helped break the arrows of the bow, and aided in winning the victory for our Lord! Happy are they who trust themselves to this conquering Lord, and fight side by side with Him, doing their little in His name and by His strength! How unhappy are those on the side of evil! It is a losing side, and it is a matter where to lose is to lose and be lost for ever. On whose side are you?