March 2nd Evening

0:00You are listening to Morning and Evening, a daily devotional work by Reverend Charles Spurgeon. This reading is brought to you by the Spurgeon Study Bible, available in the original King James Version, or the Christian Standard Bible, at SpurgeonStudyBible.com. And evening, today is March 2. And to me, who am lest in the least of all saints, is this grace given that I should preach among the Gentiles, the unsearchable riches of Christ, Ephesians 3 verse 8. The Apostle Paul felt a great privilege to be allowed to preach the gospel. He did not look upon his calling as a drudgery, but he entered upon it with intense

1:04delight. Yet, while Paul was thus thankful for his office, his success in it greatly humbled him. The fuller a vessel becomes, the deeper it sinks in the water. Idlers may indulge a fun conceit of their abilities, because they are untried, but the earnest worker soon learns his own weaknesses. If you seek humility, try hard work. If you would know your nothingness, attempt some great things for Jesus. If you would feel how utterly powerless you are apart from the living God, attempt especially the great work of proclaiming the unsearchable riches of Christ, and you will know as you never knew before what a weak unworthy thing you are. Although the Apostle thus knew and confessed his weakness, he was never perplexed as to the subject of his ministry. From his first sermon to his last, Paul preached Christ and nothing but Christ. He lifted up the cross and

2:10extolled the Son of God who bled thereon. Follow his example in all your personal efforts to spread the glad tidings of salvation, and let Christ and Him crucified be your ever-occurring theme. The Christian should be like those lovely spring flowers, which, when the Son is shining, open their golden cups as if saying, fill us with Ibeams. But when the Son is hidden behind a cloud, they close their cups and droop their heads. So should the Christian feel a sweet influence of Jesus. Jesus must be His Son, and He must be the flower which yields itself to the Son of righteousness. Oh, to speak of Christ alone, this is the subject which is both seed for the sower and bread for the eater. This is the life coal for the lip of the speaker and the master key to the heart of the hero.

3:14Beloved, in this world we shall have many trials, but as you rest this night, be of good cheer for you are the child of the one that has overcome the world.