Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Monday July 9, 2018 |
Evening Time: 8:37 PM PST
"And God divided the light from the darkness." --Genesis 1:4
A believer has two principles at work within him. In his natural estate he
was subject to one principle only, which was darkness; now light has entered,
and the two principles disagree. Mark the apostle Paul's words in the seventh
chapter of Romans: "I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is
present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see
another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me
into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members." How is this state of
things occasioned? "The Lord divided the light from the darkness." Darkness, by
itself, is quiet and undisturbed, but when the Lord sends in light, there is a
conflict, for the one is in opposition to the other: a conflict which will never
cease till the believer is altogether light in the Lord. If there be a division
within the individual Christian, there is certain to be a division
without. So soon as the Lord gives to any man light, he proceeds to separate
himself from the darkness around; he secedes from a merely worldly religion of
outward ceremonial, for nothing short of the gospel of Christ will now satisfy
him, and he withdraws himself from worldly society and frivolous amusements, and
seeks the company of the saints, for "We know we have passed from death unto
life, because we love the brethren." The light gathers to itself, and the
darkness to itself. What God has divided, let us never try to unite, but as
Christ went without the camp, bearing His reproach, so let us come out from the
ungodly, and be a peculiar people. He was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate
from sinners; and, as He was, so we are to be nonconformists to the world,
dissenting from all sin, and distinguished from the rest of mankind by our
likeness to our Master.
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