Spurgeon: June AM
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"The Lord shut him in."
--Genesis 7:16
Noah was shut in away from all the world by the hand of
divine love. The door of electing purpose interposes between us
and the world which lieth in the wicked one. We are not of the
world even as our Lord Jesus was not of the world. Into the sin,
the gaiety, the pursuits of the multitude we cannot enter; we
cannot play in the streets of Vanity Fair with the children of
darkness, for our heavenly Father has shut us in. Noah was shut
in with his God . " Come thou into the ark," was the Lord's
invitation, by which He clearly showed that He Himself intended
to dwell in the ark with His servant and his family. Thus all
the chosen dwell in God and God in them. Happy people to be
enclosed in the same circle which contains God in the Trinity of
His persons, Father, Son, and Spirit. Let us never be
inattentive to that gracious call, "Come, my people, enter thou
into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee, and hide
thyself as it were for a little moment until the indignation be
overpast." Noah was so shut in that no evil could reach him .
Floods did but lift him heavenward, and winds did but waft him
on his way. Outside of the ark all was ruin, but inside all was
rest and peace. Without Christ we perish, but in Christ Jesus
there is perfect safety. Noah was so shut in that he could not
even desire to come out , and those who are in Christ Jesus are
in Him for ever. They shall go no more out for ever, for eternal
faithfulness has shut them in, and infernal malice cannot drag
them out. The Prince of the house of David shutteth and no man
openeth; and when once in the last days as Master of the house
He shall rise up and shut the door, it will be in vain for mere
professors to knock, and cry Lord, Lord open unto us, for that
same door which shuts in the wise virgins will shut out the
foolish for ever. Lord, shut me in by Thy grace.