Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Monday May 29, 2017 |
Morning Time: 11:25 AM PST
"Thou hatest wickedness." --Psalm 45:7
"Be ye angry, and sin not." There can hardly be goodness in a man if he be
not angry at sin; he who loves truth must hate every false way. How our Lord
Jesus hated it when the temptation came! Thrice it assailed Him in different
forms, but ever He met it with, "Get thee behind me, Satan." He hated it in
others; none the less fervently because He showed His hate oftener in tears of
pity than in words of rebuke; yet what language could be more stern, more
Elijah-like, than the words, "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer." He hated
wickedness, so much that He bled to wound it to the heart; He died that it might
die; He was buried that He might bury it in His tomb; and He rose that He might
for ever trample it beneath His feet. Christ is in the Gospel, and that Gospel
is opposed to wickedness in every shape. Wickedness arrays itself in fair
garments, and imitates the language of holiness; but the precepts of Jesus, like
His famous scourge of small cords, chase it out of the temple, and will not
tolerate it in the Church. So, too, in the heart where Jesus reigns, what war
there is between Christ and Belial! And when our Redeemer shall come to be our
Judge, those thundering words, "Depart, ye cursed" which are, indeed, but a
prolongation of His life-teaching concerning sin, shall manifest His abhorrence
of iniquity. As warm as is His love to sinners, so hot is His hatred of sin; as
perfect as is His righteousness, so complete shall be the destruction of every
form of wickedness. O thou glorious champion of right, and destroyer of wrong,
for this cause hath God, even Thy God, anointed thee with the oil of gladness
above Thy fellows.
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