Spurgeon: June PM
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"Good Master."
--Matthew 19:16
If the young man in the gospel used this title in speaking to
our Lord, how much more fitly may I thus address Him! He is
indeed my Master in both senses, a ruling Master and a teaching
Master. I delight to run upon His errands, and to sit at His
feet. I am both His servant and His disciple, and count it my
highest honour to own the double character. If He should ask me
why I call Him " good ," I should have a ready answer. It is
true that "there is none good but one, that is, God," but then
He is God, and all the goodness of Deity shines forth in Him. In
my experience, I have found Him good, so good, indeed, that all
the good I have has come to me through Him. He was good to me
when I was dead in sin, for He raised me by His Spirit's power;
He has been good to me in all my needs, trials, struggles, and
sorrows. Never could there be a better Master, for His service
is freedom, His rule is love: I wish I were one thousandth part
as good a servant. When He teaches me as my Rabbi, He is
unspeakably good, His doctrine is divine, His manner is
condescending, His spirit is gentleness itself. No error mingles
with His instruction--pure is the golden truth which He brings
forth, and all His teachings lead to goodness, sanctifying as
well as edifying the disciple. Angels find Him a good Master and
delight to pay their homage at His footstool. The ancient saints
proved Him to be a good Master, and each of them rejoiced to
sing, "I am Thy servant, O Lord!" My own humble testimony must
certainly be to the same effect. I will bear this witness before
my friends and neighbours, for possibly they may be led by my
testimony to seek my Lord Jesus as their Master. O that they
would do so! They would never repent so wise a deed. If they
would but take His easy yoke, they would find themselves in so
royal a service that they would enlist in it for ever.