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November 16 Daily Devotional

Morning and Evening

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“On that day living water will flow from Jerusalem ... it will continue in summer as in winter” (Zechariah 14:8).

Bible Reading

Zechariah 14:6–9

Devotional

The streams of living water that flow from Jerusalem are no more dried up by the parching heats of sultry midsummer than they are frozen by the cold winds of blustering midwinter. Rejoice, O my soul, that you are spared to testify of the faithfulness of the Lord. The seasons change, and you change, but your Lord remains forever the same, and the streams of his love are just as deep, just as broad, and just as full as ever. The heats of worries and scorching trials make you need the cooling influences of the river of his grace; you may go at once and drink to the full from the inexhaustible fountain, for in summer and in winter it pours forth its flood. The upper springs are never scanty, and—blessed be the name of the Lord!—the lower springs cannot fail either.

Elijah found the brook Cherith dry up, but Jehovah was still the same God of providence. Job said his brethren were like deceitful brooks, but he found his God to be an overflowing river of consolation. The Nile is the great confidence of Egypt, but its floods are variable; our Lord, on the other hand, is evermore the same. Cyrus took the city of Babylon by turning the course of the Euphrates River; but no power, human or infernal, can ever divert the current of God’s grace.

The beds of ancient rivers have been found all dry and desolate, but the streams that take their rise on the mountains of God’s sovereign and infinite love will ever be full to the brim. Generations come and go, but the course of grace is unaltered. The river of God may sing with greater truth than the brook in the poem—

“Men may come, and men may go,
but I go on forever.”

How happy you are, O my soul, to be led beside such still waters! Never wander to other streams, lest you hear the Lord’s rebuke, “‘Be appalled at this, you heavens, and shudder with great horror,’ declares the LORD. ‘My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.’” (Jer. 2:12–13).

[July 1]

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

 

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