June 9 Evening Devotional | The Search for Truth | Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Evening, June 8 | “Search the Scriptures.” —John 5:39 (NASB)

This Evening's Scripture Reading: John 5:37-47 (NASB)

And the Father who sent Me, He has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form. You do not have His word abiding in you, for you do not believe Him whom He sent.
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life. I do not receive glory from men; but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves. I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him. How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only God? Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope. For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”

Devotional Video Transcript:

The Greek word here rendered search signifies a strict, close, diligent, curious search, such as men make when they are seeking gold, or hunters when they are in earnest after game. We must not rest content with having given a superficial reading to a chapter or two, but with the candle of the Spirit, we must deliberately seek out the meaning of the word.

Holy Scripture requires searching — much of it can only be learned by careful study. There is milk for babes, but also meat for strong men.
The rabbis wisely say that a mountain of matter hangs upon every word, yea, upon every title of Scripture. Tertullian exclaims, “I adore the fulness of the Scriptures.” No man who merely skims the book of God can profit thereby; we must dig and mine until we obtain the treasure. The door of the word only opens to the key of diligence.

The Scriptures demand to be searched. They are the writings of God, bearing the divine stamp — who shall dare to treat them with levity?
He who despises them despises the God who wrote them. God forbid that any of us should leave our Bibles to become swift witnesses against us in the great day of account.

The word of God will repay searching. God does not ask us to sift a mountain of chaff with only here and there a grain of wheat in it, but the Bible is sifted corn — we have only to open the granary door and find it. Scripture grows upon the student. It is full of surprises. Under the teaching of the Holy Spirit, to the searching eye, it glows with splendor of revelation, like a vast temple paved with wrought gold, and roofed with rubies, emeralds, and all manner of gems. There is no merchandise like the merchandise of Scriptural truth.

Lastly, the Scriptures reveal Jesus: “it is these that testify about Me.” (John 5:39b) No more powerful motive can be urged upon Bible readers than this: he who finds Jesus finds life, heaven, and all things. Happy are they who, searching the Bible, discover their Savior.

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