October 22 Daily Devotional

Bible Reading

Job 40:1–5

Devotional

One cheering word for you, poor lost sinner! You think you must not come to God because you are vile. Now, there is not a saint living on earth except that he been made to feel that he is vile. If Job, and Isaiah, and Paul were all obliged to say “I am vile,” then, poor sinner, will you be ashamed to join in the same confession? If God’s grace does not eradicate all sin from the believer, then how do you hope to do it yourself? and if God loves his people while they are yet vile, then do you think your vileness will prevent his loving you?

Believe into Jesus, you outcast of the world’s society! Jesus calls you, and such as you are.

“Not the righteous, not the righteous;
sinners, Jesus came to call.”

Even now say, “You have died for sinners; I am a sinner, Lord Jesus, sprinkle your blood on me.” If you will confess your sin you will find pardon. If, now, with all your heart, you say, “I am vile, wash me,” you shall be washed now. If the Holy Spirit shall enable you from your heart to cry

“Just as I am, without one plea
but that thy blood was shed for me,
and that thou bidd’st me come to thee,
O Lamb of God, I come!”
(Charlotte Elliott)

you shall rise from reading this morning’s portion with all your sins pardoned. And even if you woke this morning with every sin that people have ever committed on your head, you shall rest tonight accepted in the Beloved. Though once degraded with the rags of sin, you shall be adorned with a robe of righteousness, and appear as pure as the angels are. For “now,” mark it, “Now now is the time of God’s favour, now is the day of salvation” (2 Cor. 6:2). If you “trust him who justifies the ungodly” (Rom. 4:5), you are saved. Oh! may the Holy Spirit give you saving faith in him who receives the vilest.

[June 6, morning]

Extracted from C. H. Spurgeon, Morning and Evening (public domain), language modernized by Larry E. Wilson.