Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Sunday March 6, 2022 |
Morning Time: 5:57 AM PST
"Ye must be born again." --John 3:7
Regeneration is a subject which lies at the very basis of salvation, and we
should be very diligent to take heed that we really are "born again," for there
are many who fancy they are, who are not. Be assured that the name of a
Christian is not the nature of a Christian; and that being born in a Christian
land, and being recognized as professing the Christian religion is of no avail
whatever, unless there be something more added to it--the being "born again," is
a matter so mysterious, that human words cannot describe it. "The wind
bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell
whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the
Spirit." Nevertheless, it is a change which is known and felt: known by
works of holiness, and felt by a gracious experience. This great work is
supernatural. It is not an operation which a man performs for himself: a
new principle is infused, which works in the heart, renews the soul, and affects
the entire man. It is not a change of my name, but a renewal of my nature, so
that I am not the man I used to be, but a new man in Christ Jesus. To wash and
dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: man can do the
one, God alone can do the other. If you have then, been "born again," your
acknowledgment will be, "O Lord Jesus, the everlasting Father, Thou art my
spiritual Parent; unless Thy Spirit had breathed into me the breath of a new,
holy, and spiritual life, I had been to this day 'dead in trespasses and sins.'
My heavenly life is wholly derived from Thee, to Thee I ascribe it. 'My life is
hid with Christ in God.' It is no longer I who live, but Christ who liveth in
me." May the Lord enable us to be well assured on this vital point, for to be
unregenerate is to be unsaved, unpardoned, without God, and without hope.
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