GOD’S WORD FOR OCTOBER 3

We are using Charles Spurgeon book, “The Risen King.”  It’s a collection of well chosen excerpts from Spurgeon’s  “Easter” sermons in devotional form, put together by Jeff Medders.   Pastor Spurgeon lived from 1834 to 1892  in London, England, and had a unique gift of understanding and showing the depth of our faith.  Thus, his reverential title as the Prince of Preachers.   Even though we’re not in or near that season, every day is a good day to focus on Christ’s sacrifice and victory for us!

SIT AT JESUS’ FEET

Luke 10:38-42

Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house.  And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet and heard His word.  But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.”

 And Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things.  But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

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The one thing necessary is what Mary chose – that good portion which should not be taken away from her.  Very clearly this was to sit at Jesus’ feet and hear His Word.  If anything is plain at all in Holy Scripture, it is evident that this is the one thing we need:  to sit at Jesus’ feet and hear His Word.  This and nothing less:  this and nothing more.

We are always to be learners and lovers of Jesus.  Never let departure from Him and independence of Him be named among you.  It is weakness, sickness, sin, and sorrow for a believer to leave the Lord and become either their own leader or reliance.  We are only safe while we remain humbly and gladly ready to obey Him.  Jesus Christ is a monopolizer of human hearts:  He will never accept just one part of our person.  He bought us altogether, and He will have the whole of our personality.  Christ must be everything, or He will be nothing.  Christ must be first to us.  We do not love Christ if we love anything as well as Christ.  And neither do we trust Christ if we trust in anything besides.  Christ must reign alone.  “Jesus only” must be the motto of our spirits.  It is good for us, therefore, that only one thing is necessary, for only one thing is possible.  And from this one blessing flow many blessings.

To sit at Jesus’ feet means holiness, for those who learn of Jesus learn no sin but are instructed in lovely things and things of good repute.  It brings strength, for they who sit with Jesus and feed upon Him are girded with His strength.  It means zeal, for the love of Christ fires hearts that live upon it, and they that are much in the company of Jesus become like Jesus, so that the zeal of the Lord’s house burns hot within them.  So, when we say that sitting at Jesus’ feet is the one thing necessary, we have not uttered a mere truism; it encompasses a world of blessings.

Christian, it is necessary for you today to have communion with Christ.  Do not think of it as only indispensable tomorrow – it is needed now.  There are dangers you cannot see which can only be warded off by present and immediate fellowship with Christ.  “One thing is necessary.”  However much you advance, O believer, you never advance beyond this.  Whatever your experience or your information or your ripeness for glory, it is still necessary to sit at Jesus’ feet.  You shall never get into a higher class in the school of wisdom than the class which Christ teaches.  It is always necessary – every moment necessary – that we sit at Jesus’ feet.

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Matthew 15:30

Then great multitudes came to Him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others; and they laid them down at Jesus’ feet, and He healed them.

John 7:46

The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this Man!”

Matthew 28:9

And as they went to tell His disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, “Rejoice!” So they came and held Him by the feet and worshiped Him.

Numbers 32:11

‘Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me,

Luke 8:41

And behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue. And he fell down at Jesus’ feet and begged Him to come to his house,

John 12:3

Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.”

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