Lead me here by Your grace and blood and keep me here Dear Lord Jesus.
Psalms 51:8 Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad. (BBE) When I sin against You Dear Lord Jesus, You will correct me out of Your great love for me. Here also King David shows and tells us (because of his own trouble, despair, and agony) that the Lord Jesus will not allow us to live in sin, rebellion and disobedience and be happy and peaceful in sin. We must forsake or leave that sin (repentance) and then our Lord Jesus will answer by giving us the petition of verse 12 in this same Psalms.
Psalms 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. (KJV)You Dear Lord Jesus will never turn away from any person, any soul that comes to this point in their inner man or woman.
Evening
“Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.”
- Luk_22:46When is the Christian most liable to sleep? Is it not when his temporal circumstances are prosperous? Have you not found it so? When you had daily troubles to take to the throne of grace, were you not more wakeful than you are now? Easy roads make sleepy travellers. Another dangerous time is when all goes pleasantly in spiritual matters. Christian went not to sleep when lions were in the way, or when he was wading through the river, or when fighting with Apollyon, but when he had climbed half way up the Hill Difficulty, and came to a delightful arbour, he sat down, and forthwith fell asleep, to his great sorrow and loss. The enchanted ground is a place of balmy breezes, laden with fragrant odours and soft influences, all tending to lull pilgrims to sleep. Remember Bunyan’s description: “Then they came to an arbour, warm, and promising much refreshing to the weary pilgrims; for it was finely wrought above head, beautified with greens, and furnished with benches and settles. It had also in it a soft couch, where the weary might lean.” “The arbour was called the Slothful’s Friend, and was made on purpose to allure, if it might be, some of the pilgrims to take up their rest there when weary.” Depend upon it, it is in easy places that men shut their eyes and wander into the dreamy land of forgetfulness. Old Erskine wisely remarked, “I like a roaring devil better than a sleeping devil.” There is no temptation half so dangerous as not being tempted. The distressed soul does not sleep; it is after we enter into peaceful confidence and full assurance that we are in danger of slumbering. The disciples fell asleep after they had seen Jesus transfigured on the mountain top. Take heed, joyous Christian, good frames are near neighbours to temptations: be as happy as you will, only be watchful.
By Charles H. Spurgeon
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