26 NOVEMBER (1876)
Christ the conqueror of Satan
‘And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.’ Genesis 3:15
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Luke 5:1–11
The text evidently encouraged Adam very much. I do not think we have attached enough importance to the conduct of Adam after the Lord had spoken to him. Notice the simple but conclusive proof which he gave of his faith. Sometimes an action may be very small and unimportant, and yet, as a straw shows which way the wind blows, it may display at once, if it be thought over, the whole state of the man’s mind. Adam acted in faith upon what God said, for we read, ‘And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living’ (Genesis 3:20). She was not a mother at all, but as the life was to come through her by virtue of the promised seed, Adam marks his full conviction of the truth of the promise, though at the time the woman had borne no children.
There stood Adam, fresh from the awful presence of God; what more could he say? He might have said with the psalmist, ‘My flesh trembleth for fear of thee’, but even then he turns round to his fellow-culprit as she stands there trembling too, and he calls her Eve, mother of the life that is yet to be. It was grandly spoken by father Adam: it makes him rise in our esteem. Had he been left to himself he would have murmured or at least despaired, but no, his faith in the new promise gave him hope. He uttered no word of repining against the condemnation to till with toil the unthankful ground, nor on Eve’s part was there a word of repining over the appointed sorrows of motherhood; they each accepted the well-deserved sentence with the silence which denotes the perfection of their resignation; their only word is full of simple faith. There was no child on whom to set their hopes, nor would the true seed be born for many an age, still Eve is to be ‘the mother of all living’, and he calls her so. Exercise like faith.
FOR MEDITATION: Consider some occasions when faith in God’s word overcame apparently reasonable objections such as those raised by Abraham (Genesis 15:1–6), Moses (Exodus 6:10–13), Samuel (1 Samuel 16:1–4), Peter (Luke 5:4–6) and Ananias (Acts 9:10–17).
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 341.
Christ the conqueror of Satan
‘And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.’ Genesis 3:15
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Luke 5:1–11
The text evidently encouraged Adam very much. I do not think we have attached enough importance to the conduct of Adam after the Lord had spoken to him. Notice the simple but conclusive proof which he gave of his faith. Sometimes an action may be very small and unimportant, and yet, as a straw shows which way the wind blows, it may display at once, if it be thought over, the whole state of the man’s mind. Adam acted in faith upon what God said, for we read, ‘And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living’ (Genesis 3:20). She was not a mother at all, but as the life was to come through her by virtue of the promised seed, Adam marks his full conviction of the truth of the promise, though at the time the woman had borne no children.
There stood Adam, fresh from the awful presence of God; what more could he say? He might have said with the psalmist, ‘My flesh trembleth for fear of thee’, but even then he turns round to his fellow-culprit as she stands there trembling too, and he calls her Eve, mother of the life that is yet to be. It was grandly spoken by father Adam: it makes him rise in our esteem. Had he been left to himself he would have murmured or at least despaired, but no, his faith in the new promise gave him hope. He uttered no word of repining against the condemnation to till with toil the unthankful ground, nor on Eve’s part was there a word of repining over the appointed sorrows of motherhood; they each accepted the well-deserved sentence with the silence which denotes the perfection of their resignation; their only word is full of simple faith. There was no child on whom to set their hopes, nor would the true seed be born for many an age, still Eve is to be ‘the mother of all living’, and he calls her so. Exercise like faith.
FOR MEDITATION: Consider some occasions when faith in God’s word overcame apparently reasonable objections such as those raised by Abraham (Genesis 15:1–6), Moses (Exodus 6:10–13), Samuel (1 Samuel 16:1–4), Peter (Luke 5:4–6) and Ananias (Acts 9:10–17).
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 341.
26 NOVEMBER (1876)
Christ the conqueror of Satan
‘And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.’ Genesis 3:15
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Luke 5:1–11
The text evidently encouraged Adam very much. I do not think we have attached enough importance to the conduct of Adam after the Lord had spoken to him. Notice the simple but conclusive proof which he gave of his faith. Sometimes an action may be very small and unimportant, and yet, as a straw shows which way the wind blows, it may display at once, if it be thought over, the whole state of the man’s mind. Adam acted in faith upon what God said, for we read, ‘And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living’ (Genesis 3:20). She was not a mother at all, but as the life was to come through her by virtue of the promised seed, Adam marks his full conviction of the truth of the promise, though at the time the woman had borne no children.
There stood Adam, fresh from the awful presence of God; what more could he say? He might have said with the psalmist, ‘My flesh trembleth for fear of thee’, but even then he turns round to his fellow-culprit as she stands there trembling too, and he calls her Eve, mother of the life that is yet to be. It was grandly spoken by father Adam: it makes him rise in our esteem. Had he been left to himself he would have murmured or at least despaired, but no, his faith in the new promise gave him hope. He uttered no word of repining against the condemnation to till with toil the unthankful ground, nor on Eve’s part was there a word of repining over the appointed sorrows of motherhood; they each accepted the well-deserved sentence with the silence which denotes the perfection of their resignation; their only word is full of simple faith. There was no child on whom to set their hopes, nor would the true seed be born for many an age, still Eve is to be ‘the mother of all living’, and he calls her so. Exercise like faith.
FOR MEDITATION: Consider some occasions when faith in God’s word overcame apparently reasonable objections such as those raised by Abraham (Genesis 15:1–6), Moses (Exodus 6:10–13), Samuel (1 Samuel 16:1–4), Peter (Luke 5:4–6) and Ananias (Acts 9:10–17).
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 341.
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