Spurgeon's Jan. 23 Morning & Evening

MORNING "I have exalted one chosen out of the people." Psalm 89:19 Why was Christ chosen out of the people? Speak, my heart-thoughts are best. Was it not that He might be able to br our brother, in the blest tie of kindred blood? Oh, what relationship there is between Christ and the believer! The believer can say, "I have a brother in heaven; I may be poor, but I have a brother who is rich, and is a King, and will He suffer me to want while He is on the throne? Oh, no! He loves me; He is my Brother." Believer, wear this blessed thought, like a necklace of diamonds, around the neck of your memory; put it, as a golden ring, on the finger of recollection, and use it as the King's own seal, stamping the petitions of thy faith with confidence of success. He is a brother born for adversity, treat Him as such. Christ was also chosen out of the people that He might know our wants and sympathize with us. "He was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin." In all our sorrows we have His sympathy. Temptation, pain, disappointment, weakness, weariness, poverty --- He knows them all, for He has felt all. Remember this, Christian, and let it comfort you. However difficult and painful your road, it is marked by the footsteps of your Saviour; and even when you reach the dark valley of the shadow of death, and the deep waters of the swelling Jordan, you will find His footprints there. In all places whithersoever we go, He has been our forerunner; each burden we have to carry, has once been laid on the shoulders of Immanuel. "His way was much rougher and darker than mine;" Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?" Take courage! Royal feet have left a blood-red track upon the road and consecrated the thorny path forever.

EVENING "We will remember Thy love more than wine." Song of Solomon 1:4 JESUS will not let His people forget His love. If all the love they have enjoyed should be forgotten, He will visit them with fresh love. "Do you forget My cross? says He, "I will cause you to remember it; for at My table I will manifest Myself anew to you. Do you forget what I did for you in the council-chamber of eternity? I will remind you of it, for you shall need a counsellor, and shall find Me ready at your call." Mothers do not let their children forget them If the boy has gone to Australia, and does not write home, his mother writes --- "Has John forgotten his mother?" Then there comes back a sweet epistle, which proves that the gentle reminder was not in vain. So it is with Jesus, He says to us, "Remember Me?" and our response is, "We will remember Your love and its matchless history. It is ancient as the glory which You have with the Father before the world was. We remember, O Jesus, Your eternal love when You did become our Surety, and espouse us as your betrothed. We remember the love which suggested the sacrifice of Yourself, the love which, until the fulness of time, mused over that sacrifice, and long for the hour whereof in the volume of the book it was written of You, "Lo, I come." We remember Your love, O Jesus as it was manifest to us in Your holy life, from the manger of Bethlehem to the garden of Gethsemane. We track You from the cradle to the grave --- for every word and deed of Yours was love --- and we rejoice in your love, which death did not exhaust; Your love which shone resplendent in your resurrection. We remember that burning fire of love which will never let You hold Your peace until your chosen ones be all safely housed, until Zion is glorified, and Jerusalem settled on her everlasting foundations of light and love in heaven.

1. Invitation to Link to attend online virtual traditional 150+ years old church at 8:45 am CDT every Sunday morning: (Select Live Stream)Live Stream | First Baptist Church, Garland, TX (fbcgarland.org)

2. Invitation to Link to attend online Zoom meeting of FBCG Barnabas Sunday School Department at 10:00 am CDT every Sunday morning: (You will be connected by the Zoom meeting manager)https://us05web.zoom.us/j/2899163560?pwd=UVRqWWtxNlJXRkhXdTBVZzZmNUxLQT09