G. Campbell Morgan Quote

Reading is something I do every day.  I am always in the middle of several books in addition to the Bible.  Over the years I have either purchased or acquired books that I have yet to read.  There are some books I read every couple years of so, like Charles Spurgeon's Lectures to My Students, Foxes Book of Martyrs, and a 1st edition copy of J. Oswald Sander's book Spiritual Leadership.  I also have some large sets which were purchased as an investment because of the incredible price I am still working through.  One of these is a 10-volume set titled The Westminster Pulpit which feature the preaching of G. Campbell Morgan.  Slowly and surely I intend to read through the thousands of pages still unread in my library.

I read a passage this morning I thought was very beneficial.  G. Campbell Morgan was preaching on the conversation of Jesus Christ with two distraught, disillusioned disciples on the road to Emmaus.  It is my pleasure to share a portion of this illuminating message with you.

What were the things that He said?  Nothing new.  I am increasingly impressed with this.  He did not bring to them any new message.  It was the old, so said as they had never heard it said before.  "Beginning at Moses and all the prophets He interpreted to them in the scriptures the things concerning Himself..."

...Then when He took their prophets one by one, how wonderful to hear Him explain, and how marvelous the rapture of their heart as they heard Him tell how all the prophets led up to the Messiah Who died just as they had seen that Man die, of Whom they had been speaking so kindly.  As they listened to Him they would find out that he was David's King, "fairer than the children of men"; and in the days of Solomon's well-doing He it was that was "altogether lovely."  He was Isaiah's child-king, with a shoulder strong enough to bear the government, and a name Emmanuel gathering within itself all excellencies.  He was Jeremiah's "Branch of Righteousness, executing judgment and righteousness in the land"; Ezekiel's "Plant of renoun," giving shade and shedding fragrance; Daniel's stone cut without hands, smiting the image, becoming a mountain, and filling the whole earth; the ideal Israel of Hosea "growing as the lily," "casting out his roots as Lebanon; to Joel "the hope of His people and the strength of the children of Israel"; the usherer in of the great vision of Amos of "the plowman overtaking the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed"; and of Obadiah the "deliverance upon Mount Zion and holiness"; the fulfillment of that of which Jonah was but a sign; the "turning again" of God of which Micah spoke; the One Whom Nahum saw upon the mountains publishing peace; the Anointed of Whom Habakkuk sang as "going forth for salvation"; He Who brought to the people the pure language of Zephaniah's message, the true Zerubbabel of Haggai's word rebuilding forever the house and the city of God; Himself the dawn of the day when "holiness unto the Lord shall be upon the bells of the horses" as Zechariah foretold; He the "refiner's fire," "the fuller's soap," "The Sun of righteousness" of Malachi's vision.  All these things passed in rapid survey as He talked.  He was taking their own prophets and unlocking them, flinging back the shutters and letting the light stream in.  He talked of them, and they were silent; and there broke upon them a new vision of the truth, a new understanding of things which they were perfectly familiar, and in this new vision they found new understanding of all the things which they long had known.

Their burning heart, what was it?  The thrill of a new discovery of their Lord and the shame of the past failure to appreciate Him, and the passion of a new endeavor which should set their feet in the pathway which led to ultimate victory. (The Westminster Pulpit, G. Campbell Morgan, Vol. 1, pg. 92-94)

What treasures lay dusty in your library?  What truth lies hidden in your Bible yet to be discovered!  What an amazing, life-giving resource we have available in God's Word when illuminated through the Holy Spirit!  Read on, read on - but not alone:  invite Jesus to walk with you as you read.  No longer will it be dry dull passages, but words bursting with life and meaning!  It is Christ who will sustain our souls!  It is Jesus who makes all things new!