July 16 Evening Devotional | Abundant Comfort | Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Evening, July 16 | “You will arise and have compassion on Zion; For it is time to be gracious to her, For the appointed time has come. Surely Your servants find pleasure in her stones And feel pity for her dust.” —Psalm 102:13 & 14 (NASB)

This Evening's Scripture Reading: Psalm 102:12-18 (NASB)

But You, O Lord, abide forever,
And Your name to all generations.
You will arise and have compassion on Zion;
For it is time to be gracious to her,
For the appointed time has come.
Surely Your servants find pleasure in her stones
And feel pity for her dust.
So the nations will fear the name of the Lord
And all the kings of the earth Your glory.
For the Lord has built up Zion;
He has appeared in His glory.
He has regarded the prayer of the destitute
And has not despised their prayer.
This will be written for the generation to come,
That a people yet to be created may praise the Lord.

Devotional Video Transcript:

A selfish man in trouble is exceedingly hard to comfort because the springs of his comfort lie entirely within himself, and when he is sad, all his springs are dry. But a large-hearted man, full of Christian philanthropy, has other springs from which to supply himself with comfort besides those which lie within. He can go to his God first of all, and there find abundant help; and he can discover arguments for consolation in things relating to the world at large, to his country, and, above all, to the church. David in this Psalm was exceedingly sorrowful; he wrote, “I am like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.” (Psalm 102:6-7)
The only way in which he could comfort himself, was in the reflection that God would arise, and have mercy upon Zion: though he was sad, yet Zion should prosper; however low his own estate, yet Zion should arise.

Christian, learn to comfort yourself in God’s gracious dealings toward the church. That which is so dear to your Master, should it not be dear above all else to you? Though your way be dark, can you not gladden your heart with the triumphs of his cross and the spread of his truth? Our own personal troubles are forgotten while we look, not only upon what God has done, and is doing for Zion, but on the glorious things he will yet do for his church.

Try this receipt, O believer, whenever you are sad of heart and in heaviness of spirit: forget yourself and your little concerns, and seek the welfare and prosperity of Zion. When you bend your knee in prayer to God, limit not your petition to the narrow circle of your own life, tried though it be, but send out your longing prayers for the church’s prosperity, “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem,” (Psalm 122:6) and your own soul shall be refreshed.

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