Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Saturday October 14, 2017 |
Evening Time: 9:13 PM PST
"And be not conformed to this world." --Romans 12:2
If a Christian can by possibility be saved while he conforms to this world,
at any rate it must be so as by fire. Such a bare salvation is almost as much to
be dreaded as desired. Reader, would you wish to leave this world in the
darkness of a desponding death bed, and enter heaven as a shipwrecked mariner
climbs the rocks of his native country? then be worldly; be mixed up with
Mammonites, and refuse to go without the camp bearing Christ's reproach. But
would you have a heaven below as well as a heaven above? Would you comprehend
with all saints what are the heights and depths, and know the love of Christ
which passeth knowledge? Would you receive an abundant entrance into the joy of
your Lord? Then come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not
the unclean thing. Would you attain the full assurance of faith? you cannot gain
it while you commune with sinners. Would you flame with vehement love? your love
will be damped by the drenchings of godless society. You cannot become a great
Christian--you may be a babe in grace, but you never can be a perfect man in
Christ Jesus while you yield yourself to the worldly maxims and modes of
business of men of the world. It is ill for an heir of heaven to be a great
friend with the heirs of hell. It has a bad look when a courtier is too intimate
with his king's enemies. Even small inconsistencies are dangerous. Little thorns
make great blisters, little moths destroy fine garments, and little frivolities
and little rogueries will rob religion of a thousand joys. O professor, too
little separated from sinners, you know not what you lose by your conformity to
the world. It cuts the tendons of your strength, and makes you creep where you
ought to run. Then, for your own comfort's sake, and for the sake of your growth
in grace, if you be a Christian, be a Christian, and be a marked and distinct
one.
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