Spurgeon: December PM
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"Thou, O God, hast prepared of Thy goodness for the poor."
--Psalm 68:10
All God's gifts are prepared gifts laid up in store for wants
foreseen. He anticipates our needs; and out of the fulness which
He has treasured up in Christ Jesus, He provides of His goodness
for the poor. You may trust Him for all the necessities that can
occur, for He has infallibly foreknown every one of them. He can
say of us in all conditions, "I knew that thou wouldst be this
and that." A man goes a journey across the desert, and when he
has made a day's advance, and pitched his tent, he discovers
that he wants many comforts and necessaries which he has not
brought in his baggage. "Ah!" says he, "I did not foresee this: if I had this journey to go again, I should bring these things
with me, so necessary to my comfort." But God has marked with
prescient eye all the requirements of His poor wandering
children, and when those needs occur, supplies are ready. It is
goodness which He has prepared for the poor in heart, goodness
and goodness only. "My grace is sufficient for thee." "As thy
days, so shall thy strength be."
Reader, is your heart heavy this evening? God knew it would
be; the comfort which your heart wants is treasured in the sweet
assurance of the text. You are poor and needy, but He has
thought upon you, and has the exact blessing which you require
in store for you. Plead the promise, believe it and obtain its
fulfillment. Do you feel that you never were so consciously vile
as you are now? Behold, the crimson fountain is open still, with
all its former efficacy, to wash your sin away. Never shall you
come into such a position that Christ cannot aid you. No pinch
shall ever arrive in your spiritual affairs in which Jesus
Christ shall not be equal to the emergency, for your history has
all been foreknown and provided for in Jesus.