# “All the gifts of sovereign grace are intended to give us joy” by Charles Spurgeon

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- Published: 2019-03-09T12:00:55-06:00
- Author: tollelege

“Brethren, let us think over our comforts now, for a minute, and our consolations.
Have we not this for consolation—that God has loved us with an everlasting love,
even the Lord who cannot change?

Hitherto He has never failed us,—He has promised that all good things shall be ours
as we need them, and it has been so. Have we not this for a consolation—that He 
has given us Christ, and therein has given us all things?

Can He deny us anything now, after having given to us His own dear Son? Let us think
how dear we are to Christ, how much we cost Him, how precious we are in His sight.

Can He leave us? Can He be unkind to us? Let us reflect upon the way in which the
Lord has hitherto always appeared for us in times of difficulty, and rescued us 
in days of jeopardy.

Turning to the Book, and finding it written, ‘I am God: I change not,’ let us be
consoled for the future, and go on our way confident that all shall be well.

All the covenant promises are meant to console us. All the gifts of sovereign grace
are intended to give us joy. The attributes of God are springs of consolation for
us.

The human nature of Christ in which He comes near to us is a source of bliss. The
gentleness and tenderness of the Holy Ghost who dwells in us on purpose to be our
Comforter are dear subjects of delight.

Indeed, if we be down cast, we must blame ourselves. ‘Why art thou cast down, O 
my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet
praise him.’ The consolations of the Spirit are ‘waters to swim in.’

Beloved, we must draw to a close upon this one thought of abundance. Just think 
of what God has done for us by way of making us happy.

He has not only pardoned us, but He has received us into His family, and He has 
taken us there, not to be His hired servants, as we once thought He might do, but
He has made us His own sons; and what is more than that, He has made us heirs, and
not secondary heirs either, but ‘joint-heirs with Christ Jesus’; so that we have
come right up from the place of the slave into the position of the heir of all things.

Our Lord Himself, our dear and ever blessed Saviour, was not content to pluck us
like brands from the burning—not content to make us His sheep, whom He should watch
over with tender care—but He has taken us to be His spouse, and He calls us His 
beloved.

Yea, He has done more. He has taken us to be members of His body, and we are of 
His flesh and of His bones. Was there ever such an exaltation as this?

When Scripture speaks of lifting a beggar from the dunghill, and setting him among
princes, surely it falls short of this wonder—that of taking a worm of the dust,
a sinful wretch that was only fit for Hell, and putting him into union with Christ
Jesus, so that he should be a part of the mystical body of the Son of God.

This is marvellous; and, as I think of it, I feel that I have brought you to the
sea shore and shown you an ocean to swim in, the depth of which you cannot fathom.
Oh the depths of the mercy of God!”

–Charles H. Spurgeon, “‘[Waters to Swim In](https://amzn.to/2NNh2ji),’” in [_The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, Vol. 18_](https://amzn.to/2NNh2ji)(
London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1872), 18: 317–318.

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## Comments

### By: dforbes

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- Published: 2019-03-11T11:29:13-05:00

Such a powerful word of encouragement along this pilgrim way. Tangible gems of joy
and remembrance of the love & care of our Lord and Savior.
 Thank you