God Wants Our Emptiness

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

2 Kings 4:3

Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels abroad of all your neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.

Do you see that beautiful tree in the orchard loaded with fruit? It is a pear tree. From top to bottom it is covered with fruit. Some boughs are ready to break with the luscious burden. As I listen to the creaking boughs, I can hear the tree speak. It says. "Baskets, baskets, baskets, bring baskets." Now, then, who has a basket? "I have got one," says yonder friend, "but it is of no use, for there is nothing in it." Bring it here, man; that is the very kind of basket the tree wants. A person over there says, "Oh, I have a basket, a splendid basket. It is just the thing. It is full from top to bottom." You may keep your basket to yourself. It is of no use to my loaded tree... What is wanted by the Lord Jesus is an empty soul to receive out of the fulness God has treasured up in Him.

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