Spurgeon: October AM
* 10/28/AM
"I have chosen you out of the world."
--John 15:19
Here is distinguishing grace and discriminating regard; for
some are made the special objects of divine affection. Do not be
afraid to dwell upon this high doctrine of election. When your
mind is most heavy and depressed, you will find it to be a
bottle of richest cordial. Those who doubt the doctrines of
grace, or who cast them into the shade, miss the richest
clusters of Eshcol; they lose the wines on the lees well
refined, the fat things full of marrow. There is no balm in
Gilead comparable to it. If the honey in Jonathan's wood when
but touched enlightened the eyes , this is honey which will
enlighten your heart to love and learn the mysteries of the
kingdom of God. Eat, and fear not a surfeit; live upon this
choice dainty, and fear not that it will be too delicate a diet.
Meat from the King's table will hurt none of His courtiers.
Desire to have your mind enlarged, that you may comprehend more
and more the eternal, everlasting, discriminating love of God.
When you have mounted as high as election, tarry on its sister
mount, the covenant of grace. Covenant engagements are the
munitions of stupendous rock behind which we lie entrenched;
covenant engagements with the surety, Christ Jesus, are the
quiet resting-places of trembling spirits.
"His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the raging flood;
When every earthly prop gives way,
This still is all my strength and stay."
If Jesus undertook to bring me to glory, and if the Father
promised that He would give me to the Son to be a part of the
infinite reward of the travail of His soul; then, my soul, till
God Himself shall be unfaithful, till Jesus shall cease to be
the truth, thou art safe. When David danced before the ark, he
told Michal that election made him do so. Come, my soul, exult
before the God of grace and leap for joy of heart.