Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Sunday April 23, 2017 |
Morning Time: 3:55 AM PST
"Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved
us." --Romans 8:37
We go to Christ for forgiveness, and then too often look to the law for power
to fight our sins. Paul thus rebukes us, "O foolish Galatians, who hath
bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth? This only would I learn of
you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the
flesh?" Take your sins to Christ's cross, for the old man can only be crucified
there: we are crucified with Him. The only weapon to fight sin with is
the spear which pierced the side of Jesus. To give an illustration--you want to
overcome an angry temper, how do you go to work? It is very possible you have
never tried the right way of going to Jesus with it. How did I get salvation? I
came to Jesus just as I was, and I trusted Him to save me. I must kill my angry
temper in the same way? It is the only way in which I can ever kill it. I must
go to the cross with it, and say to Jesus, "Lord, I trust Thee to deliver me
from it." This is the only way to give it a death-blow. Are you covetous? Do you
feel the world entangle you? You may struggle against this evil so long as you
please, but if it be your besetting sin, you will never be delivered from it in
any way but by the blood of Jesus. Take it to Christ. Tell Him, "Lord, I have
trusted Thee, and Thy name is Jesus, for Thou dost save Thy people from their
sins; Lord, this is one of my sins; save me from it!" Ordinances are nothing
without Christ as a means of mortification. Your prayers, and your repentances,
and your tears--the whole of them put together--are worth nothing apart from
Him. "None but Jesus can do helpless sinners good;" or helpless saints either.
You must be conquerors through Him who hath loved you, if conquerors at all. Our
laurels must grow among His olives in Gethsemane.
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