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February 01, 2007
Daily Reading: Leviticus 1:1-3:17
Quick Study: Exodus 35:1-37:29
Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is
the glory of the LORD.
Psalms 138:5
When Christians begin to sing in the ways of the
Lord is the time when they first lose their burden at the foot of the
Cross. Not even the songs of the angels seem so sweet as the
first song of rapture which gushes from the inmost soul of the
forgiven child of God. You know how John Bunyan describes it. He
says when poor Pilgrim lost his burden at the Cross, he gave
three great leaps, and went on his way singing--
Blest Cross! blest Sepulchre! blest rather be
The Man that there was put to shame for me!
Believer, do you recollect the day when your fetters fell
off? Do you remember the place when Jesus met you, and said, "I
have loved thee with an everlasting love; I have blotted out as
a cloud thy transgressions, and as a thick cloud thy sins; they
shall not be mentioned against thee any more for ever." O! what
a sweet season is that when Jesus takes away the pain of sin.
When the Lord first pardoned my sin, I was so joyous that I
could scarce refrain from dancing. I thought on my road home
from the house where I had been set at liberty, that I must tell
the stones in the street the story of my deliverance. So full
was my soul of joy, that I wanted to tell every snow flake that
was falling from heaven of the wondrous love of Jesus, who had
blotted out the sins of one of the chief of rebels. But it is
not only at the commencement of the Christian life that
believers have reason for song; as long as they live they
discover cause to sing in the ways of the Lord, and their
experience of his constant lovingkindness leads them to say, "I
will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually
be in my mouth." See to it, brother, that thou magnifiest the
Lord this day.
Long as we tread this desert land,
New mercies shall new songs demand.
C. H. Spurgeon
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