“Let us declare
concerning our Lord that we found him better and better and better and better,
even till we entered into his rest. He has been at first better than our fears,
then better than our hopes, and finally better than our desires. So good, so
blessed a God do we serve, that he always by his deeds of grace outruns our
largest expectations. What cause we have for the worship of grateful praise;
let us not be slow to render it…
Do you remember when he
[Jesus Christ] came to you personally, and wrestled with you and tore away your
self-righteousness, and made you limp upon your thigh? This it may be was your
first introduction to him. You saw him by night, and thought him at the first
to be rather your enemy than your friend. Do you recollect when he took your
strength away from you, and then at last saved you, because in utter weakness,
as you were about to fall to the ground, you laid hold of him and said, “I will not let thee go except thou bless me,”
and so you won a blessing from him? You had thought aforetime that you had
strength in yourself, but now you learned that you were weakness itself, and
that only as you became consciously weak would you become actually strong. You
learned to look out of self to him, and do you not bless him for having taught
you such a lesson? Will you not when you come to die bless him for what he did
for you then, and all your life long? O my brethren, we owe all things to the
redeeming Angel of the covenant [Jesus Christ]. The evils which he has warded
off from us are terrible beyond conception, and the blessings he has brought us
are rich beyond imagination. We must adore him, and, though we see him not, we
must in life and in death by faith worship him with lowly love."
— C. H. Spurgeon (1878). The
Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons (Vol. 24, pp. 130).
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