October 21 Evening Devotional | The Apple of His Eye | Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Evening, October 21 | “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?” —Luke 24:38 (NASB)

This Evening's Scripture Reading: Luke 24:36-38 (NASB)

While they were telling these things, He Himself stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be to you.” But they were startled and frightened and thought that they were seeing a spirit. And He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?

Devotional Video Transcript:

“Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord, And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God”?” (Isaiah 40:27 NASB) The Lord cares for all things, and the meanest creatures share in his universal providence, but his particular providence is over his saints. “The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, And rescues them.” (Psalm 34:7 NASB) “Precious shall their blood be in his sight.” (Psalm 72:14) “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.” (Psalm 116:15) “We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are the called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:28) Let the fact that, while he is the Savior of all men, he is especially the Savior of them that believe, cheer and comfort you.

You are his peculiar care; his regal treasure which he guards as the apple of his eye; his vineyard over which he watches day and night. “The very hairs of your head are all numbered.” (Matthew 10:30) Let the thought of his special love to you be a spiritual painkiller, a dear quietus to your woe: “I will never leave you, nor forsake you.” (Hebrews 13:5) God says that as much to you as to any saint of old. “Fear not, I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.” (Genesis 15:1) We lose much consolation by the habit of reading his promises for the whole church, instead of taking them directly home to ourselves.

Believer, grasp the divine word with a personal, appropriating faith. Think that you hear Jesus say, “I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail.” (Luke 22:32 NASB) Think you see him walking on the waters of your trouble, for he is there, and he is saying, “Fear not, it is I; be not afraid.” (John 6:20) Oh, those sweet words of Christ! May the Holy Spirit make you feel them as spoken to you; forget others for awhile — accept the voice of Jesus as addressed to you, and say, “Jesus whispers consolation; I cannot refuse it; I will sit under his shadow with great delight.”

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