My Devotional This Morning

I read my devotional this morning and I really thought that it was amazing so I wanted to post it on here so that maybe it will bless someone else like it blessed me! :)

It's from "Spurgeon's Most Popular Works: Morning & Evening" by Charles Spurgeon.

"Salvation is of the Lord" - Jonah 2:9

"Salvation is the work of God. It is He alone who quickens the soul "dead in trespasses and sins" (Ephesians 2:1), and it is He also who maintains the soul in its spiritual life. He is both "Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end" (Revelation 1:8). "Salvation is of the Lord." If I am prayerful, God makes me prayerful. If I have graces, they are God's gift to me. If I hold on in a consistent life, it is because He upholds me with His hand. I do nothing whatever towards my own preservation, except what God himself first does in me. Whatever I have, all my goodness is of the Lord alone. Wherein I sin, that is my own; but wherein I act uprightly, that is of God, wholly and completely. If I have repulsed a spiritual enemy, the Lord's strength fortified my arm. Do I live a consecrated life before men? It is not I, but Christ who lives in me. Am I sanctified? I did not cleanse myself; God's Holy Spirit sanctifies me. Am I weaned from the world? I am weaned by God's chastisements sanctified to my good. Do I grow in knowledge? The great Instructor teaches me. All my jewels were fashioned by heavenly art. I find in God all that I need, but I find in myself nothing but sin and misery. "He only is my rock and my salvation" (Psalm 62:2, 6). Do I feed on the Word? That Word would be no food for me unless the Lord made it food for my soul and helped me to feed on it. Do I live on the manna that comes down from heaven? What is that manna but Jesus Christ Himself incarnate, whose body and whose blood I eat and drink? Am I continually recieving fresh increase of strength? Where do I gather my might? My help comes from heaven's hills. Without Jesus, I can do nothing. As a branch cannot bring forth fruit unless it "abide[s] in the vine" (John 15:4), no more can I, unless I abide in Him. What Jonah learned in the great deep, let me learn this morning in my place of prayer: "Salvation is of the LORD." "