Spurgeon: February AM
* 02/28/AM
"My expectation is from Him."
--Psalm 62:5
It is the believer's privilege to use this language. If he is
looking for aught from the world, it is a poor "expectation"
indeed. But if he looks to God for the supply of his wants,
whether in temporal or spiritual blessings, his expectation"
will not be a vain one. Constantly he may draw from the bank of
faith, and get his need supplied out of the riches of God's
lovingkindness. This I know, I had rather have God for my
banker than all the Rothschilds. My Lord never fails to honour
His promises; and when we bring them to His throne, He never
sends them back unanswered. Therefore I will wait only at His
door, for He ever opens it with the hand of munificent grace. At
this hour I will try Him anew. But we have "expectations" beyond
this life. We shall die soon; and then our "expectation is from
Him." Do we not expect that when we lie upon the bed of sickness
He will send angels to carry us to His bosom? We believe that
when the pulse is faint, and the heart heaves heavily, some
angelic messenger shall stand and look with loving eyes upon us,
and whisper, "Sister spirit, come away!" As we approach the
heavenly gate, we expect to hear the welcome invitation, "Come,
ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world." We are expecting harps of
gold and crowns of glory; we are hoping soon to be amongst the
multitude of shining ones before the throne; we are looking
forward and longing for the time when we shall be like our
glorious Lord--for "We shall see Him as He is." Then if these be
thine "expectations," O my soul, live for God; live with the
desire and resolve to glorify Him from whom cometh all thy
supplies, and of whose grace in thy election, redemption, and
calling, it is that thou hast any "expectation" of coming glory.