December 29 Evening Devotional | High Esteem for Christ | Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Evening, December 29 | “What think ye of Christ?” —Matthew 22:42

This Evening's Scripture Reading: Matthew 22:42-46

“While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,

“The LORD said unto my Lord,
Sit thou on my right hand,
Till I make thine enemies thy footstool?

“If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.”

Devotional Video Transcript:

The great test of your soul’s health is, What think you of Christ? Is he to you “fairer than the children of men” — “the chief among ten thousand” — the “altogether lovely”? Wherever Christ is thus esteemed, all the faculties of the spiritual man exercise themselves with energy. I will judge of your piety by this barometer: does Christ stand high or low with you? If you have thought little of Christ, if you have been content to live without his presence, if you have cared little for his honor, if you have been neglectful of his laws, then I know that your soul is sick — God grant that it may not be sick unto death!

But if the first thought of your spirit has been, how can I honor Jesus? If the daily desire of your soul has been, “O that I knew where I might find him!” I tell you that you may have a thousand infirmities, and even scarcely know whether you are a child of God at all, and yet I am persuaded, beyond a doubt, that you are safe, since Jesus is great in your esteem.

I care not for thy rags, what think you of his royal apparel? I care not for thy wounds, though they bleed in torrents, what think you of his wounds? are they like glittering rubies in thine esteem? I think none the less of thee, though you lie like Lazarus on the dunghill, and the dogs do lick thee — I judge thee not by thy poverty: what think you of the King in his beauty?

Has he a glorious high throne in thy heart? Would you set him higher if you could? Would you be willing to die if you could but add another trumpet to the strain which proclaims his praise? Ah! then it is well with thee. Whatever you may think of yourself, if Christ be great to thee, you shall be with him before long.

“Though all the world my choice deride,
Yet Jesus shall my portion be;
For I am pleased with none beside,
The fairest of the fair is he”

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