June 14 | Evening
6/14/20263 min
❖ This is the devotional for the evening of June 14.
❖ The Scripture for this devotion is Daniel 9:8.
❖ This podcast comes from Crossway's new edition of 'Morning and Evening' written by Charles H. Spurgeon and revised by Alistair Begg. This podcast is narrated by Frazer Blaxland.
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[gentle music] June 14th, evening. "To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, because we have sinned against You" Daniel 9:8. A deep sense and clear view of sin, its dreadfulness and the punishment that it deserves should make us lie low before the throne. We have sinned as Christians. It is sad that it should be so. We have been favored, and yet we have been ungrateful. Privileged beyond most, but we have not brought forth fruit in proportion. Who is there, although he may have been engaged in Christian warfare for years, who will not blush when he looks back upon the past? As for our days before we were born again, may they be forgiven and forgotten. But since then, though we have not sinned as before, yet we have sinned against light and against love. Light that has really penetrated our minds and love in which we have rejoiced. The sin of a pardoned soul is an atrocity. An unpardoned sinner sins cheaply compared with the sin of one of God's elect who has had communion with Christ and