One of my all time favorite author/preacher’s is Charles H. Spurgeon. I especially love my Morning and Evening devotional. He has a way of speaking right to my soul. I even find myself saying yes and amen as I read along and that doesn’t happen very often! Here is one that I read a while back that I thought many out there can relate to.

It’s taken from Habakkuk 1:8

“Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves; their horsemen press proudly on. Their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.”

“While preparing the present volume, this particular expression recurred to me so frequently, that in order to be rid of its constant importunity I determined to give a page to it. The evening wolf, infuriated by a day of hunger, was fiercer and more ravenous than he would have been in the morning. May not the furious creature represent our doubts and fears after a day of distraction of mind, losses in business, and perhaps ungenerous tauntings from our fellow men? How our thoughts howl in our ears, “Where is now thy God?” How voracious and greedy they are, swallowing up all suggestions of comfort, and remaining as hungry as before. Great Shepherd, slay these evening wolves, and bid Thy sheep lie down in green pastures, undisturbed by insatiable unbelief. How like are the fiends of hell to evening wolves, for when the flock of Christ are in a cloudy and dark day, and their sun seems going down, they hasten to tear and devour. They will scarcely attack the Christian in the daylight of faith, but in the gloom of the soul conflict they fall upon him. O Thou who has laid down Thy life for the sheep, preserve them from the fangs of the wolf.

False teachers who craftily and industriously hunt for the precious life, devouring men by their falsehoods, are as dangerous and detestable as evening wolves. Darkness is their element, deceit is their character, destruction is their end. We are most in danger from them when they wear sheep’s skin. Blessed is he who is kept from them, for thousands are made the prey of grievous wolves that enter within the fold of the church.

What a wonder of grace it is when fierce persecutors are converted, for then the wolf dwells with the lamb, and men of cruel ungovernable dispositions become gentle and teachable. O Lord, convert many such: for such we will pray tonight.”

So there you have a taste and glimpse of Spurgeon. More will surely follow as it seems every day I read something so wonderful and profound that leads me and draws me nearer to the King of Kings.

One last note: I want to offer any out there who don’t have Spurgoen’s Morning/Evening devotional a free copy. It would be my joy and delight to send you one for free. I love sharing books that offer great truth with others. I cannot keep them to myself. Simply email me your name and address at mkretsinger@atomicplaypen.com and a copy will be on its way! (Come on now, don’t be shy!)