March 4th 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. This evening, today is March the 4th. There shall be abundantly satisfied with the fetness of thy house, Psalm 36 verse 8. Shebers Queen was amazed at the sumptuousness of Solomon's table. She lost all heart when she saw the provision of a single day, and she marveled equally at the company of servants who were feasted at the royal board.

1:03But what is this to the hospitalities of the God of grace? Ten thousand thousand of his people are daily fed, hungry and thirsty. They bring large appetites with them to the banquet, but not one of them returns unsatisfied. There is enough for each, enough for all, enough for ever more. So the host that feedeth to Hover's table is countless as the stars of heaven, yet each one has his portion of meat. Think how much grace one saint requires, so much that nothing but the infinite could supply him for one day. And yet the Lord spreads his table, not for one, but many saints, not for one day, but for many years, not for many years only, but for generation after generation. Observe the full feasting spoken of in the text. The guests at Mercy's banquet are satisfied, nay, more abundantly satisfied, and that,

2:06not with ordinary fair, but with fetness, the peculiar fetness of God's own house, and such feasting is guaranteed by a faithful promise to all those children of men who put their trust under the shadow of Jehovah's wings. I once thought if I might but get the broken meat at God's back door of grace, I should be satisfied. Like the woman who said, the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the master's table, but no child of God is ever served with scraps and leavings. Like Mephibasheth, they all eat from the king's own table. In matters of grace we all have Benjamin's mess. We all have ten times more than we could have expected, and though our necessities are great, yet are we often amazed at the marvelous plenty of grace which God gives us experimentally to enjoy.

3:06Loved ones, on this night, where the peace of God which passes all understanding, keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus our Lord.