Spurgeon: March PM
* 03/23/PM
"I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones
would immediately cry out."
--Luke 19:40
But could the stones cry out? Assuredly they could if He who
opens the mouth of the dumb should bid them lift up their voice.
Certainly if they were to speak, they would have much to testify
in praise of Him who created them by the word of His power; they
could extol the wisdom and power of their Maker who called
them into being. Shall not we speak well of Him who made us
anew, and out of stones raised up children unto Abraham? The old
rocks could tell of chaos and order, and the handiwork of God in
successive stages of creation's drama; and cannot we talk of
God's decrees, of God's great work in ancient times, in all that
He did for His church in the days of old? If the stones were to
speak, they could tell of their breaker , how he took them from
the quarry, and made them fit for the temple, and cannot we tell
of our glorious Breaker, who broke our hearts with the hammer of
His word, that He might build us into His temple? If the stones
should cry out they would magnify their builder , who polished
them and fashioned them after the similitude of a palace; and
shall not we talk of our Architect and Builder, who has put us
in our place in the temple of the living God? If the stones
could cry out, they might have a long, long story to tell by way
of memorial, for many a time hath a great stone been rolled as a
memorial before the Lord; and we too can testify of Ebenezers,
stones of help, pillars of remembrance. The broken stones of the
law cry out against us, but Christ Himself, who has rolled away
the stone from the door of the sepulchre, speaks for us. Stones
might well cry out, but we will not let them: we will hush their
noise with ours; we will break forth into sacred song, and bless
the majesty of the Most High, all our days glorifying Him who is
called by Jacob the Shepherd and Stone of Israel.