A devotional from Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)
“I cannot believe that salvation is meant for me,” someone
says. “I am a nobody.”
A nobody, are you? I have a great love for nobodies. I am
tired of somebodies, and the worst somebody in the world is my own somebody.
How I wish I could always throw my own somebody out and keep company with none
but nobodies!
Nobody, where are you? You are the very person that I am
sent to look after. If there is nothing in you, there will be all the more of
Christ. If you are not only empty, but cracked and broken; if you are done for,
destroyed, ruined, and utterly crushed; to you is this word of salvation sent:
‘Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’
I have opened the gate wide. If the entrance led to the
wrong track, all the sheep would go through. But since it is the right road, I
can leave the gate open as long as I wish, yet the sheep will evade it unless
You, the Great Shepherd, go around the field and lead them in. Take up in Your
own arms a lost lamb whom You purchased long ago with Your dear heart’s blood.
Take him up upon Your gracious shoulders, rejoicing as You do it, and place him
within the field where the good pasture grows.
Thank you, Lord, for Your patience in those times when we take our eyes off Jesus, intent on satisfying the desires of the person we see in the mirror. Thank you for spiritual eyes to see our sin, our hopelessness without Jesus. And thank you for the love and compassion for others that you plant in our hearts as we surrender to Your will.
"All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because 'God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble'." 1 Peter 5:5
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