June 14 | Morning
6/14/20263 min
❖ This is the devotional for the morning of June 14.
❖ The Scripture for this devotion is Psalm 37:4.
❖ 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, morning. Delight yourself in the Lord. Psalm 37:4. The teaching of these words must seem very surprising to those who are strangers to vital godliness. But to the sincere believer, it is only the reminder of a recognized truth. The life of the believer is described as a delight in God, and we are reminded of the great fact that genuine faith overflows with happiness and joy. Ungodly persons and mere professors never look upon religion as a joyful thing. To them, it is service, duty, or necessity, but never pleasure or delight. If they attend to religion at all, it is either because of what they might get or because they are afraid of the consequences of neglect. The thought of delight in religious exercise is so strange to most men that no two words in their language stand further apart than holiness and delight. But believers who know Christ understand that delight and faith are so wonderfully united that the gates of hell cannot manage to separate them. Those who love God