Spurgeon: January PM
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"And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for
all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told
unto them."
--Luke 2:20
What was the subject of their praise? They praised God for
what they had heard --for the good tidings of great joy that a
Saviour was born unto them. Let us copy them; let us also raise
a song of thanksgiving that we have heard of Jesus and His
salvation. They also praised God for what they had seen .
There is the sweetest music--what we have experienced, what we
have felt within, what we have made our own--"the things which
we have made touching the King." It is not enough to hear
about Jesus: mere hearing may tune the harp, but the fingers of
living faith must create the music. If you have seen Jesus with
the God-giving sight of faith, suffer no cobwebs to linger
among the harpstrings, but loud to the praise of sovereign
grace, awake your psaltery and harp. One point for which they
praised God was the agreement between what they had heard and
what they had seen . Observe the last sentence--"As it was told
unto them." Have you not found the gospel to be in yourselves
just what the Bible said it would be? Jesus said He would give
you rest--have you not enjoyed the sweetest peace in Him? He
said you should have joy, and comfort, and life through
believing in Him--have you not received all these? Are not His
ways ways of pleasantness, and His paths paths of peace? Surely
you can say with the queen of Sheba, "The half has not been
told me." I have found Christ more sweet than His servants ever
said He was. I looked upon His likeness as they painted it, but
it was a mere daub compared with Himself; for the King in His
beauty outshines all imaginable loveliness. Surely what we
have " seen " keeps pace with, nay, far exceeds, what we have
" heard ." Let us, then, glorify and praise God for a Saviour
so precious, and so satisfying.