Spurgeon Saturday
Jesus gives more than drips of grace
When Spurgeon preached on Jesus turning gallons and gallons water to wine, he made a connection to the bounty of grace Jesus gives. And he also made a reference to one of my favorite verses in the Song of Songs, “He brought me to the house of wine and his banner over me was love” (Song 2:4). Here’s what Spurgeon said we learn about Christ from his miracle:
“Our dear Master will give to all those who are his followers a joy unspeakable and full of glory. They shall not only have enough grace to live by so as barely to hope and serve; but they shall drink of “wines on the lees well refined,” and shall have grace to sing with, grace to rejoice with, grace to fill them with assurance, and cause them to overflow with delight.
Our Beloved has not only brought us to the house of bread, but to the banquet of wine. We have heaven here below. Jesus does not measure out grace by the drop, as chemists do their medicines; but he gives liberally, his vessels are filled to the brim. And the quality is as notable as the quantity: he gives the best of the best—joys, raptures, and ecstasies. O my soul, at what a royal table dost thou sit! He daily loadeth thee with benefits.”
— C. H. Spurgeon1
Jesus does not measure out grace by the drop, as chemists do their medicines;
but he gives liberally, his vessels are filled to the brim.
C. H. Spurgeon, “The Beginning of Miracles Which Jesus Did,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, vol. 36 (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1890), 402.