Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Tuesday July 7, 2020 |
Evening Time: 1:53 PM PST
"When I passed by thee, I said unto thee, Live." --Ezekiel 16:6
Saved one, consider gratefully this mandate (of mercy. Note that this fiat of
God is majestic. In our text, we perceive a sinner with nothing in him
but sin, expecting nothing but wrath; but the eternal Lord passes by in His
glory; l He looks. He pauses, and He pronounces the solitary but royal word,
"Live." There speaks a God. Who but He could venture thus to deal with life and
dispense it with a single syllable? Again, this fiat is manifold. When He
saith "Live," it includes many things. Here is judicial life. The sinner is
ready to be condemned, but the mighty One saith, "Live," and he rises pardoned
and absolved. It is spiritual life. We knew not Jesus--our eyes could not see
Christ, our ears could not hear His voice--Jehovah said "Live," and we were
quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins. Moreover, it includes
glory-life, which is the perfection of spiritual life. "I said unto thee, Live:"
and that word rolls on through all the years of time till death comes, and in
the midst of the shadows of death, the Lord's voice is still heard, "Live!" In
the morning of the resurrection it is that self-same voice which is echoed by
the arch-angel, "Live," and as holy spirits rise to heaven to be blest for ever
in the glory of their God, it is in the power of this same word, "Live." Note
again, that it is an irresistible mandate. Saul of Tarsus is on the road
to Damascus to arrest the saints of the living God. A voice is heard from heaven
and a light is seen above the brightness of the sun, and Saul is crying out,
"Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" This mandate is a mandate of free
grace. When sinners are saved, it is only and solely because God will
do it to magnify His free, unpurchased, unsought grace. Christians, see your
position, debtors to grace; show your gratitude by earnest, Christlike lives,
and as God has bidden you live, see to it that you live in earnest.
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