Lord’s Day Meditation: “It Is Enough for the Disciple That He Be as His Master” by C.H. Spurgeon

Lord’s Day Meditation: “It Is Enough for the Disciple That He Be as His Master” by C.H. Spurgeon (Morning & Evening, November 10, Evening)

“It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master.” (Matthew 10:25)

No one will dispute this statement, for it would be unseemly
for the servant to be exalted above his Master. When our Lord was on earth,
what was the treatment he received? Were his claims acknowledged, his
instructions followed, his perfections worshipped, by those whom he came to
bless? No; “He was despised and rejected of men.” Outside the camp
was his place: cross-bearing was his occupation. Did the world yield him solace
and rest? “Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the
Son of man hath not where to lay his head.” This inhospitable country
afforded him no shelter: it cast him out and crucified him. Such–if you are a
follower of Jesus, and maintain a consistent, Christ-like walk and
conversation–you must expect to be the lot of that part of your spiritual life
which, in its outward development, comes under the observation of men. They
will treat it as they treated the Saviour–they will despise it. Dream not that
worldlings will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you
are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished
gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough? “If they have called
the Master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his
household?” If we were more like Christ, we should be more hated by his
enemies. It were a sad dishonour to a child of God to be the world’s favourite.
It is a very ill omen to hear a wicked world clap its hands and shout
“Well done” to the Christian man. He may begin to look to his
character, and wonder whether he has not been doing wrong, when the unrighteous
give him their approbation. Let us be true to our Master, and have no
friendship with a blind and base world which scorns and rejects him. Far be it
from us to seek a crown of honour where our Lord found a coronet of thorns.

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