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Friday, December 7, 2007
MORNING:
"Base things of the world hath God chosen."
-- 1 Corinthians 1:28
Walk the streets by moonlight, if you dare, and you will see sinners
then. Watch when the night is dark, and the wind is howling, and the
picklock is grating in the door, and you will see sinners then. Go to
yon jail, and walk through the wards, and mark the men with heavy
over-hanging brows, men whom you would not like to meet at night, and
there are sinners there. Go to the Reformatories, and note those who
have betrayed a rampant juvenile depravity, and you will see sinners
there. Go across the seas to the place where a man will gnaw a bone
upon which is reeking human flesh, and there is a sinner there. Go
where you will, you need not ransack earth to find sinners, for they
are common enough; you may find them in every lane and street of every
city, and town, and village, and hamlet. It is for such that Jesus
died. If you will select me the grossest specimen of humanity, if he be
but born of woman, I will have hope of him yet, because Jesus Christ is
come to seek and to save sinners. Electing love has selected some of
the worst to be made the best. Pebbles of the brook grace turns into
jewels for the crown-royal. Worthless dross he transforms into pure
gold. Redeeming love has set apart many of the worst of mankind to be
the reward of the Saviour's passion. Effectual grace calls forth many
of the vilest of the vile to sit at the table of mercy, and therefore
let none despair.
Reader, by that love looking out of Jesus' tearful eyes, by that love
streaming from those bleeding wounds, by that faithful love, that
strong love, that pure, disinterested, and abiding love; by the heart
and by the bowels of the Saviour's compassion, we conjure you turn not
away as though it were nothing to you; but believe on him and you shall
be saved. Trust your soul with him and he will bring you to his
Father's right hand in glory everlasting.
EVENING:
"I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means
save some."
-- 1 Corinthians 9:22
Paul's great object was not merely to instruct and to improve, but to
save. Anything short of this would have disappointed him; he would have
men renewed in heart, forgiven, sanctified, in fact, saved. Have our
Christian labours been aimed at anything below this great point? Then
let us amend our ways, for of what avail will it be at the last great
day to have taught and moralized men if they appear before God unsaved?
Blood-red will our skirts be if through life we have sought inferior
objects, and forgotten that men needed to be saved. Paul knew the ruin
of man's natural state, and did not try to educate him, but to save
him; he saw men sinking to hell, and did not talk of refining them, but
of saving from the wrath to come. To compass their salvation, he gave
himself up with untiring zeal to telling abroad the gospel, to warning
and beseeching men to be reconciled to God. His prayers were
importunate and his labours incessant. To save souls was his consuming
passion, his ambition, his calling. He became a servant to all men,
toiling for his race, feeling a woe within him if he preached not the
gospel. He laid aside his preferences to prevent prejudice; he
submitted his will in things indifferent, and if men would but receive
the gospel, he raised no questions about forms or ceremonies: the
gospel was the one all-important business with him. If he might save
some he would be content. This was the crown for which he strove, the
sole and sufficient reward of all his labours and self-denials. Dear
reader, have you and I lived to win souls at this noble rate? Are we
possessed with the same all-absorbing desire? If not, why not? Jesus
died for sinners, cannot we live for them? Where is our tenderness?
Where our love to Christ, if we seek not his honour in the salvation of
men? O that the Lord would saturate us through and through with an
undying zeal for the souls of men.
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