Daily devotion – Friday 13th August 2021
Isa 45:22 “Look to Me, and be saved, All you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
C.H Spurgeon was a powerful preacher of the Gospel at the age of 16 in 1850. He went on to preach before thousands and his collection of Sunday sermons stands as the largest set of books by a single preacher in the history of the Church.
But ironically Spurgeon himself is a testimony to the power of a small Church. For it was on Sunday, January 6, 1850, a blizzard hit England, and 15-year-old Charles was unable to reach the Church he usually attended.
He turned down Artillery Street and stepped into a Primitive Methodist Church, finding only a few people standing around the stove. Not even the preacher had arrived.
A thin-looking man stood and read Isaiah 45:22 – The speaker, groping for something to say, kept repeating this verse. Finally, his eyes caught young Spurgeon in the back. Pointing his bony finger at the boy, he cried, “Look, young man! Look! Look to Christ!”
Young Spurgeon did look, and he later said, “As the snow fell on my road home from the little house of prayer, I thought every snowflake talked with me and told of the pardon I had found.”
Arriving home, his mother saw his expression and exclaimed, “Something wonderful has happened to you!” It had, proving smaller ponds often yield the biggest fish.
Have you looked to Christ? It’s that simple. Maybe you have a friend or a loved one that you wish to see know Christ. Present them this beautiful Scripture, ask them to look. Anybody and everybody no matter their background can look.
Look and receive Jesus Christ today just as a young Charles Haddon Spurgeon did on that cold blizzard day.