2/1 Spurgeon Today

“They shall sing in the ways of the Lord.” — Psalm 138:5

The time when Christians begin to sing in the ways of the Lord is when
they first lose their burden at the foot of the Cross. Not even the songs of
the angels seem so sweet as the first song of rapture which gushes from the
inmost soul of the forgiven child of God. You know how John Bunyan
describes it. He says when poor Pilgrim lost his burden at the Cross, he
gave three great leaps, and went on his way singing —
“Blest Cross! blest Sepulchre! blest rather be
The Man that there was put to shame for me!”
Believer, do you recollect the day when your fetters fell off? Do you
remember the place when Jesus met you, and said, “I have loved thee with
an everlasting love; I have blotted out as a cloud thy transgressions, and as
a thick cloud thy sins; they shall not be mentioned against thee any more
for ever.” Oh! what a sweet season is that when Jesus takes away the pain
of sin. When the Lord first pardoned my sin, I was so joyous that I could
scarce refrain from dancing. I thought on my road home from the house
where I had been set at liberty, that I must tell the stones in the street the
story of my deliverance. So full was my soul of joy, that I wanted to tell
every snow-flake that was falling from heaven of the wondrous love of
Jesus, who had blotted out the sins of one of the chief of rebels. But it is
not only at the commencement of the Christian life that believers have
reason for song; as long as they live they discover cause to sing in the
ways of the Lord, and their experience of His constant lovingkindness
leads them to say, “I will bless the Lord at all times: His praise shall
continually be in my mouth.” See to it, brother, that thou magnifiest the
Lord this day.
“Long as we tread this desert land,
New mercies shall new songs demand.”