Embrace God's Command: Live! | Charles Spurgeon | Devotional | Morning & Evening: Daily Readings

JULY 7 EVENING - Embrace God's Command: Live! | C H Spurgeon | Updated | Daily Devotional | Inspirational
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"When I passed by you,... I said to you,... Live." Ezekiel 16:6
Believer - now that you are saved, consider gratefully this mandate of mercy. Note that this decree of God is majestic.
In our text, we perceive a sinner with nothing in him but sin, expecting nothing but wrath; but the eternal Lord passes by in His glory; He looks, He pauses, and He pronounces the solitary but royal word, "Live".
There speaks the Lord God. Who but He could venture thus to deal with life and dispense it with a single syllable?
Again, this decree is manifold.
When God said "Live", it includes many things.
Here is judicial life. The sinner is ready to be condemned, but the mighty One says, "Live", and the sinner rises pardoned and discharged.
It is also spiritual life. We did not know Jesus - our eyes could not see Christ, our ears could not hear His voice - Jehovah said "Live", and we were "made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins". (Ephesians 2:1)
Moreover, it includes glory-life, which is the perfection of spiritual life. "I said to you,.. Live:" and that word rolls on through all the years of time until death comes, and in the midst of the shadows of death, the Lord's voice is still heard, "Live!"
On the morning of the resurrection it is that same voice which is echoed by the archangel, "Live", and as the spirits of the holy saints rise to heaven to be blessed forever in the glory of their God, (1 Thessalonians 4:13-17) it is in the power of this same word, "Live".
Note again, that it is an irresistible mandate. Saul of Tarsus was on the road to Damascus to arrest the saints of the living God. A voice was heard from heaven and a light was seen above the brightness of the sun, and Saul was crying out, "Lord, what do You want me to do?" (Acts 9:6)
This mandate is a mandate of free grace. When sinners are saved, it is only and solely because God will do it to magnify His free, unbought, and unsought grace.
Christians, see your position as debtors to grace; show your gratitude by earnest, Christlike lives.
As God has commanded that you live, see to it that you live in earnest.
~ Time for Reflection ~
The Divine Mandate: Live!
Reflect on the profound mercy and
grace embedded in God's command to
live. This decree not only pardons and
restores but also sustains through
spiritual life and promises eternal glory.
Embrace this mandate by living a life
that honours and reflects God's grace.
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Charles H Spurgeon (1834 - 1892) was a well-known and much-loved English preacher known as the ‘Prince of Preachers’.
Mr Spurgeon was pastor of the New Park Street Chapel, now known as the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London for nearly 40 years.
Mr Spurgeon was a prolific Christian writer. He had authored many books and had been translated into many languages, even during his lifetime. His sermons at the Metropolitan Tabernacle are still being read by many Christian readers and watched on RUclips worldwide.
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