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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
"A Desire For Wind"
“Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that
the spices thereof may flow out.” Song of Solomon 4:16a
(This devotion is taken from Charles Spurgeon’s Morning &
Evening.)
Anything is better than the dead calm of indifference. Our
souls may wisely desire the north wind of trouble if that alone can be
sanctified to the drawing forth of the perfume of our graces. So
long as it cannot be said, “The Lord was not in the wind,” we will not
shrink from the most wintry blast that ever blew upon plans of
grace. Did not the spouse in this verse humbly submit herself to
the reproofs of her Beloved, only entreating Him to send forth His
grace in some form, and making no stipulation as to the peculiar manner
in which it should come? Did she not, like ourselves, become so
utterly weary of deadness and unholy calm that she signed for any
visitation which would brace her to action? Yet she desires the
warm south wind of comfort too, the smiles of divine love, the joy of
the Redeemer’s presence; these are often mightily effectual to arouse
our sluggish life. She desires either one or the other, or both,
so that she may but be able to delight her Beloved with the spices of
her garden. She cannot endure to be unprofitable, nor can
we. How cheering a thought that Jesus can find comfort in our
poor feeble graces. Can it be? It seems far too good to be
true. Well may we court trial or even death itself if we shall
thereby be aided to make glad Immanuel’s heart. O that our heart
were crushed to atoms if only by such bruising our sweet Lord Jesus
could be glorified. Graces unexercised are as sweet perfumes
slumbering in the cups of the flowers: the wisdom of the great
Husbandman overrules diverse and opposite causes to produce the one
desired result, and makes both affliction and consolation draw forth
the grateful odours of faith, love, patience, hope, resignation, joy,
and the other fair flowers of the garden. May we know by sweet
experience, what this means.
Study verses: Psalm
139; Colossians 3:1-4; I Peter 1:1-9
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Previous devotions
"Strangers
In The Lord's House" - August 18, 2010
"A
Place of Broad Rivers and Streams" - August 11, 2010
"Salesmen
of Freedom" - August 4, 2010
"They
Had Been With Jesus" - July 21, 2010
"He
Healed Them All" - July 14, 2010
"Faith
In America" - July 7, 2010
"Slow
To Anger; Great In Power" - June 30, 2010
"He
Is Precious" - June 23, 2010
"The
Fire of Strife" - June 16, 2010
"The
Common Man" - June 9, 2010
"In
My Prosperity I Said I Shall Not Be Moved" - June 2, 2010
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