1 Corinthians 9:22

“I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means
       save some.” 
              — 1 Corinthians 9:22

Paul’s great object was not merely to instruct and to improve, but to
save. Anything short of this would have disappointed him; he would have
men renewed in heart, forgiven, sanctified, in fact, saved. Have our
Christian labours been aimed at anything below this great point? Then
let us amend our ways, for of what avail will it be at the last great
day to have taught and moralized men if they appear before God unsaved?
Blood-red will our skirts be if through life we have sought inferior
objects, and forgotten that men needed to be saved. Paul knew the ruin
of man’s natural state, and did not try to educate him, but to save
him; he saw men sinking to hell, and did not talk of refining them, but
of saving from the wrath to come. To compass their salvation, he gave
himself up with untiring zeal to telling abroad the gospel, to warning
and beseeching men to be reconciled to God. His prayers were
importunate and his labours incessant. To save souls was his consuming
passion, his ambition, his calling. He became a servant to all men,
toiling for his race, feeling a woe within him if he preached not the
gospel. He laid aside his preferences to prevent prejudice; he
submitted his will in things indifferent, and if men would but receive
the gospel, he raised no questions about forms or ceremonies: the
gospel was the one all-important business with him. If he might save
some he would be content. This was the crown for which he strove, the
sole and sufficient reward of all his labours and self-denials. Dear
reader, have you and I lived to win souls at this noble rate? Are we
possessed with the same all-absorbing desire? If not, why not? Jesus
died for sinners, cannot we live for them? Where is our tenderness?
Where our love to Christ, if we seek not his honour in the salvation of
men? O that the Lord would saturate us through and through with an
undying zeal for the souls of men.

On this day…

• Mathew 18 – 2024
• Mathew 17 – 2024
• Joshua 4 – 2023
• Joshua 3 – 2023
• 1 Peter 4:6 – 2011
• Matthew 5:37 – 2011
• MANNA – 2010
• LIAR – 2010
• INTERCESSION – 2010
• HATE – 2010