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November 3 Daily Devotional

Morning and Evening

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Your Redeemer” (Isaiah 54:5).

Bible Reading

Isaiah 54:1–5

Devotional

Jesus, the Redeemer, is ours completely and ours forever. He holds all his offices on our behalf. He is King for us, Priest for us, and Prophet for us.

Every time we read a new title of the Redeemer, let us appropriate him as ours under that name as much as under any other. The Shepherd’s staff, the Father’s rod, the Captain’s sword, the Priest’s mitre, the Prince’s sceptre, the Prophet’s mantle—all are ours. Jesus has no dignity which he will not use for our exaltation. And he has no prerogative which he will not exercise for our defence. His fullness of Godhead is our unfailing, inexhaustible treasure-house.

His manhood, which he took on himself for us, is also ours in all its perfection. To us our gracious Lord communicates the spotless virtue of a stainless character. To us he gives the meritorious efficacy of a devoted life. On us he bestows the reward procured by obedient submission and persistent service. He makes the pure garment of his life our covering beauty. He makes the glittering virtues of his character our ornaments and jewels. He makes the superhuman meekness of his death our boast and glory. He bequeaths us his manger, from which to learn how God came down to us, and his Cross to teach us how we may go up to God. All his thoughts, emotions, actions, utterances, miracles, and intercessions, were for us. He trod the road of sorrow on our behalf. He has made over to us as his heavenly bequest the full results of all the labours of his life. He is now as much ours as ever before. And he does not blush to acknowledge himself “our Lord Jesus Christ,” even though he is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords. Christ everywhere and every way is our Christ, forever and ever most richly to enjoy.

O my soul, by the power of the Holy Spirit call him this morning, “your Redeemer!”

[June 18, morning meditation]

Extracted from C. H. Spurgeon, Morning and Evening (public domain), language modernized by Larry E. Wilson.

 

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