Spurgeon: May AM
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"We dwell in Him."
--1 John 4:13
Do you want a house for your soul? Do you ask, "What is the
purchase?" It is something less than proud human nature will
like to give. It is without money and without price. Ah! you
would like to pay a respectable rent! You would love to do
something to win Christ? Then you cannot have the house, for it
is "without price." Will you take my Master's house on a lease
for all eternity, with nothing to pay for it, nothing but the
ground-rent of loving and serving Him for ever? Will you take
Jesus and "dwell in Him?" See, this house is furnished with all
you want, it is filled with riches more than you will spend as
long as you live. Here you can have intimate communion with
Christ and feast on His love; here are tables well-stored with
food for you to live on for ever; in it, when weary, you can
find rest with Jesus; and from it you can look out and see
heaven itself. Will you have the house? Ah! if you are
houseless, you will say, "I should like to have the house; but
may I have it?" Yes; there is the key--the key is, "Come to
Jesus." "But," you say, "I am too shabby for such a house."
Never mind; there are garments inside. If you feel guilty and
condemned, come; and though the house is too good for you,
Christ will make you good enough for the house by-and-by. He
will wash you and cleanse you, and you will yet be able to sing,
"We dwell in Him." Believer: thrice happy art thou to have such
a dwelling-place! Greatly privileged thou art, for thou hast a
"strong habitation" in which thou art ever safe. And "dwelling
in Him," thou hast not only a perfect and secure house, but an
everlasting one. When this world shall have melted like a
dream, our house shall live, and stand more imperishable than
marble, more solid than granite, self-existent as God, for it is
God Himself--"We dwell in Him."