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"I sought him, but I found him not."
Song of Solomon 3:1
Song of Solomon 3:1
Tell
me where you lost the company of Christ, and I will tell you the most
likely place to find him.
Have you lost Christ in the closet by
restraining prayer?
Then it is there you must seek and find him.
Did you
lose Christ by sin?
You will find Christ in no other way but by the
giving up of the sin, and seeking by the Holy Spirit to mortify the
member in which the lust doth dwell.
Did you lose Christ by neglecting
the Scriptures?
You must find Christ in the Scriptures.
It is a true
proverb, "Look for a thing where you dropped it, it is there." So look
for Christ where you lost him, for he has not gone away. But it is hard
work to go back for Christ. Bunyan tells us, the pilgrim found the piece
of the road back to the Arbour of Ease, where he lost his roll, the
hardest he had ever traveled. Twenty miles onward is easier than to go
one mile back for the lost evidence.
Take
care, then, when you find your Master, to cling close to him. But how
is it you have lost him? One would have thought you would never have
parted with such a precious friend, whose presence is so sweet, whose
words are so comforting, and whose company is so dear to you! How is it
that you did not watch him every moment for fear of losing sight of him?
Yet, since you have let him go, what a mercy that you are seeking him,
even though you mournfully groan, "O that I knew where I might find
him!" Go on seeking, for it is dangerous to be without thy Lord. Without
Christ you are like a sheep without its shepherd; like a tree without
water at its roots; like a sere leaf in the tempest--not bound to the
tree of life. With thine whole heart seek him, and he will be found of
thee: only give yourself thoroughly up to the search, and surely, you shall yet discover him to your joy and gladness.
--C.H. Spurgeon, Morning and Evening
