October 6 Evening Devotional | Jesus’ Strange Choice | Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Evening, October 6 | “He had married a Cushite woman.” —Numbers 12:1 (NASB)

This Evening's Scripture Reading: Numbers 12:1 (NASB)

Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married (for he had married a Cushite woman)

Devotional Video Transcript:

Strange choice of Moses, but how much more strange the choice of him who is a prophet like unto Moses – and greater than he – even our Lord Jesus! It is the wonder of angels that the love of Jesus should be set upon poor, lost, guilty men. Each believer must, when filled with a sense of Jesus’ love, be also overwhelmed with astonishment that such love should be lavished on an object so utterly unworthy of it. Knowing as we do our secret guiltiness, unfaithfulness, and halfheartedness, we are dissolved in grateful admiration of the matchless freeness and sovereignty of grace.

Jesus must have found the cause of his love in his own heart, he could not have found it in us, for it is not there. Even since our conversion we have been poor, though grace has made us rich. Holy Rutherford said of himself what we must each subscribe to: “His relation to me is, that I am sick, and he is the Physician of whom I stand in need. Alas! how often I play fast and loose with Christ! He binds, I loose; he builds, I cast down; I quarrel with Christ, and he agrees with me twenty times a day!”

Most tender and faithful Husband of our souls, pursue your gracious work of conforming us to your image, till you shall present even us in our poverty unto yourself, without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing. Moses met with opposition because of his marriage, and both he and his spouse were the subjects of an evil eye. Can we wonder if this vain world opposes Jesus and his church, and especially when great sinners are converted? For this is ever the Pharisee’s ground of objection, “This man receives sinners.” (Luke 15:2) For indeed, “there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.” (Luke 15:7)

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