Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Thursday June 27, 2019 |
Morning Time: 4:31 AM PST
"Only ye shall not go very far away." --Exodus 8:28
This is a crafty word from the lip of the arch-tyrant Pharaoh. If the poor
bondaged Israelites must needs go out of Egypt, then he bargains with them that
it shall not be very far away; not too far for them to escape the terror of his
arms, and the observation of his spies. After the same fashion, the world loves
not the non-conformity of nonconformity, or the dissidence of dissent, it would
have us be more charitable and not carry matters with too severe a hand. Death
to the world, and burial with Christ, are experiences which carnal minds treat
with ridicule, and hence the ordinance which sets them forth is almost
universally neglected, and even contemned. Worldly wisdom recommends the path of
compromise, and talks of "moderation." According to this carnal policy, purity
is admitted to be very desirable, but we are warned against being too precise;
truth is of course to be followed, but error is not to be severely denounced.
"Yes," says the world, "be spiritually minded by all means, but do not deny
yourself a little gay society, an occasional ball, and a Christmas visit to a
theatre. What's the good of crying down a thing when it is so fashionable, and
everybody does it?" Multitudes of professors yield to this cunning advice, to
their own eternal ruin. If we would follow the Lord wholly, we must go right
away into the wilderness of separation, and leave the Egypt of the carnal world
behind us. We must leave its maxims, its pleasures, and its religion too, and go
far away to the place where the Lord calls His sanctified ones. When the town is
on fire, our house cannot be too far from the flames. When the plague is abroad,
a man cannot be too far from its haunts. The further from a viper the better,
and the further from worldly conformity the better. To all true believers let
the trumpet-call be sounded, "Come ye out from among them, be ye separate."
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