April 7 Morning Devotional | A Mournful List of Honors | Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Morning, April 7 | “O sons of men, how long will my honor become a reproach?” —Psalm 4:2 (NASB)

This Morning's Scripture Reading: Psalm 4:1-8 (NASB)

“Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness!
You have relieved me in my distress;
Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.
O sons of men, how long will my honor become a reproach?
How long will you love what is worthless and aim at deception? Selah.
But know that the Lord has set apart the godly man for Himself;
The Lord hears when I call to Him.
Tremble, and do not sin;
Meditate in your heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness,
And trust in the Lord.
Many are saying, “Who will show us any good?”
Lift up the light of Your countenance upon us, O Lord!
You have put gladness in my heart,
More than when their grain and new wine abound.
In peace I will both lie down and sleep,
For You alone, O Lord, make me to dwell in safety.”

Devotional Video Transcript:

An instructive writer has made a mournful list of the honors which the blinded people of Israel awarded to their long expected King.

1. They gave him a procession of honor, in which Roman legionaries, Jewish priests, men and women, took a part, he himself bearing his cross. This is the triumph which the world awards to him who comes to overthrow man’s direst foes. Derisive shouts are his only acclamations, and cruel taunts are his only songs of praise.

2. They presented him with the wine of honor. Instead of a golden cup of generous wine, they offered him the criminal’s stupefying death draught, which he refused because he would preserve an uninjured taste wherewith to taste of death; and afterward when he cried, “I thirst,” they gave him vinegar mixed with gall, thrust to his mouth upon a sponge. Oh! wretched, detestable inhospitality to the King’s Son.

3. He was provided with a guard of honor, who showed their esteem of him by gambling over his garments, which they had seized as their booty. Such was the body-guard of the adored of heaven; a quaternion of brutal gamblers.

4. A throne of honor was found for him upon the bloody tree. No easier place of rest would rebel men yield to their liege Lord. The cross was, in fact, the full expression of the world’s feeling towards him. “There,” they seemed to say, “you Son of God, this is the manner in which God himself should be treated, could we reach him.”

5. The title of honor was nominally “King of the Jews,” but that the blinded nation distinctly repudiated. They really called him “King of thieves,” by preferring Barabbas, and by placing Jesus in the place of highest shame between two thieves. His glory was thus in all things turned into shame by the sons of men, but it shall yet gladden the eyes of saints and angels, world without end.

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