February 1 Evening Devotional | Wonderful Love of Jesus | Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Evening, February 1 | “Thy love to me was wonderful.” —2 Samuel 1:26

This Evening's Scripture Reading: 2 Samuel 1:26

“I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: Thy love to me was wonderful…”

Devotional Video Transcript:

Come, dear believers, let each one of us speak for himself of the wonderful love, not of Jonathan, but of Jesus. We will not relate what we have been told, but the things which we have tasted and handled - of the love of Christ.

Your love to me, O Jesus, was wonderful when I was a stranger wandering far from you, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind. Your love restrained me from committing the sin which is unto death, and withheld me from self-destruction. Your love held back the axe when Justice said, “Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?” (Luke 13:7) Your love drew me into the wilderness, stripped me there, and made me feel the guilt of my sin, and the burden of my iniquity. Your love spoke comfortably to me when I was sore dismayed — “Come unto me, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28)

Oh, how matchless your love when, in a moment, you washed my sins away, and made my polluted soul, which was crimson with the blood of my nativity, and black with the grime of my transgressions, to be white as the driven snow, and pure as the finest wool. How you did commend your love when you did whisper in my ears, “I am yours and you are mine.” Kind were those accents when you said, “The Father himself loves you.” And sweet the moments, passing sweet, when you declared to me “the love of the Spirit.”

Never shall my soul forget those chambers of fellowship where you have unveiled yourself to me. Had Moses his cleft in the rock, where he saw the train, the back parts of his God? We, too, have had our clefts in the rock, where we have seen the full splendors of the Godhead in the person of Christ. Did David remember the tracks of the wild goat, the land of Jordan and the Hermonites? We, too, can remember places dear to our memory, equal to these in blessedness.
Precious Lord Jesus, give us a fresh draught of your wondrous love to begin the month with. Amen.

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