May 8 | Morning
5/8/20263 min
❖ This is the devotional for the morning of May 8.
❖ The Scripture for this devotion is John 5:13.
❖ 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] May eighth, morning. The man who had been healed did not know who it was. John chapter five, verse thirteen. Years pass quickly for the happy and the healthy, but thirty-eight years of disease must have seemed like forever in the life of the poor impotent man. When Jesus therefore healed him by a word while he lay at the pool of Bethesda, the man was delightfully aware of a change. Even so, the sinner who has for weeks and months been paralyzed with despair and has wearily sighed for salvation is very conscious of the change when the Lord Jesus speaks the word of power and gives joy and peace in believing. The evil removed is too great to be removed without our discerning it. The life imparted is too remarkable to be possessed and remain inoperative, and the change is too marvelous not to be perceived. Yet the poor man was ignorant of the author of his cure. He did not know this person or the part that he played or the plan that had brought him among men. Hearts that feel the power of his blood may still be ignorant of his ways. We must not be too quick to condemn men for lack of knowledge, but where we can see the faith that saves the soul, we must believe that salvation has been bestowed.