July 26 Evening Devotional | Our Spiritual Privileges | Morning and Evening by C. H. Spurgeon

Evening, July 26 | “To make them sit with princes.” —Psalm 113:8 (NASB)

This Evening's Scripture Reading: Psalm 113:1-9 (NASB)

Praise the Lord!
Praise, O servants of the Lord,
Praise the name of the Lord.
Blessed be the name of the Lord
From this time forth and forever.
From the rising of the sun to its setting
The name of the Lord is to be praised.
The Lord is high above all nations;
His glory is above the heavens.
Who is like the Lord our God,
Who is enthroned on high,
Who humbles Himself to behold
The things that are in heaven and in the earth?
He raises the poor from the dust
And lifts the needy from the ash heap,
To make them sit with princes,
With the princes of His people.
He makes the barren woman abide in the house
As a joyful mother of children.
Praise the Lord!

Devotional Video Transcript:

Our spiritual privileges are of the highest order. “Among princes” is the place of select society. “Indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.” (1 John 1:3 NASB) Speak of select society, there is none like this! “We are a chosen generation, a peculiar people, a royal priesthood.” (1 Peter 2:9 KJV) “We are come unto the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven.” (Hebrews 12:23 KJV)

The saints have courtly audience: princes have admittance to royalty when common people must stand afar off. The child of God has free access to the inner courts of heaven. “For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.” (Ephesians 2:18 KJV) “Let us come boldly,” says the apostle, “to the throne of the heavenly grace.” (Hebrews 4:16 KJV)

Among princes there is abundant wealth, but what is the abundance of princes compared with the riches of believers? For “all things belong to you, and you belong to Christ; and Christ belongs to God.” (1 Corinthians 3:22-23 NASB) “He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” (Romans 8:32 KJV)

Princes have peculiar power. A prince of heaven’s empire has great influence: he wields a scepter in his own domain; he sits upon Jesus’ throne, for “You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth.” (Revelation 5:10 NASB) We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity.

Princes, again, have special honor. We may look down upon all earth-born dignity from the eminence upon which grace has placed us. For what is human grandeur to this, He has “raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus”? (Ephesians 2:6 KJV) We share the honor of Christ, and compared with this, earthly splendors are not worth a thought. Communion with Jesus is a richer gem than ever glittered in imperial diadem. Union with the Lord is a coronet of beauty outshining all the blaze of imperial pomp.

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