Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Friday March 16, 2018 |
Evening Time: 3:35 PM PST
"Keep back Thy servant also from presumptuous sins." --Psalm 19:13
Such was the prayer of the "man after God's own heart." Did holy David
need to pray thus? How needful, then, must such a prayer be for us babes in
grace! It is as if he said, "Keep me back, or I shall rush headlong over the
precipice of sin." Our evil nature, like an ill-tempered horse, is apt to run
away. May the grace of God put the bridle upon it, and hold it in, that it rush
not into mischief. What might not the best of us do if it were not for the
checks which the Lord sets upon us both in providence and in grace! The
psalmist's prayer is directed against the worst form of sin--that which is done
with deliberation and wilfulness. Even the holiest need to be "kept back" from
the vilest transgressions. It is a solemn thing to find the apostle Paul warning
saints against the most loathsome sins. "Mortify therefore your members which
are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil
concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry." What! do saints want
warning against such sins as these? Yes, they do. The whitest robes, unless
their purity be preserved by divine grace, will be defiled by the blackest
spots. Experienced Christian, boast not in your experience; you will trip yet if
you look away from Him who is able to keep you from falling. Ye whose love is
fervent, whose faith is constant, whose hopes are bright, say not, "We shall
never sin," but rather cry, "Lead us not into temptation." There is enough
tinder in the heart of the best of men to light a fire that shall burn to the
lowest hell, unless God shall quench the sparks as they fall. Who would have
dreamed that righteous Lot could be found drunken, and committing uncleanness?
Hazael said, "Is Thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing?" and we are
very apt to use the same self-righteous question. May infinite wisdom cure us of
the madness of self-confidence.
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