March 26 Evening Devotional | A Morning Star of Hope | Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Evening, March 26 | “...When He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.” —Mark 8:38 (NASB)

This Morning's Scripture Reading: Mark 8:34-38 (NASB)

“And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul? For what will a man give in exchange for his soul? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.””

Devotional Video Transcript:

If we have been partakers with Jesus in his shame, we shall also share with him the luster which shall surround him when he appears again in glory. Are you, beloved one, with Christ Jesus? Does a vital union bind you to him? Then you are today with him in his shame; you have taken up his cross, and gone with him outside the camp bearing his reproach; you shall doubtless be with him when the cross is exchanged for the crown.

But judge yourself this evening; for if you are not with him in the regeneration, neither shall you be with him when he shall come in his glory. If you run from the dark side of fellowship, you shall not understand its bright, its happy period, when the King shall come with all his holy angels.

What! are angels with him? And yet he did not take up angels — he took up the seed of Abraham. Are the holy angels with him? Come, my soul, if you are indeed his own beloved, you can not be far from him. If his friends and his neighbors are called together to see his glory, shall you be distant? Though it be a day of judgment, yet you can not be far from that heart which, having admitted angels into intimacy, has admitted you into union with himself. Has he not said to you, O my soul, “I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and in justice, in lovingkindness and in compassion?” (Hosea 2:19) Has he not declared us to be in union with Him? If the angels, who are but friends and neighbors, shall be with him, it is abundantly certain that his own beloved in whom is all his delight, shall be near to him, and sit at his right hand. Here is a morning star of hope for you, of such exceeding brilliance, that it may well light up your darkest and most desolate experience.

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