After all, brethren, we are nobodies, and we have come of a line of nobodies. The proudest peer of the realm may trace his pedigree as far as ever he likes, but he ought to remember that if his blood is blue, it must be very unhealthy to have such blood in one’s veins. The common ruddy blood of the peasant is, after all, far healthier. Big as men may account themselves to be on account of their ancestors, we all trace our line up to a gardener, who lost his place through stealing his Master’s fruit, and that is the farthest we can possibly go. Adam covers us all with disgrace, and under that disgrace we should all sit humbly down. Look into your own heart, and if you dare to be proud, you have never seen your heart at all. It is a mass of pollution: it is a den of filthiness.

Apart from divine grace, your heart is a seething mass of putrefaction, and if God’s eternal Spirit were not to hold it in check, but to let your nature have its way, envyings, lustings, murders, and every foul thing would come flying forth in your daily life. A sinner and yet proud! It is monstrous. As for children of God, how can they be proud ? I fear we are all too much so; but what have we to be proud of ? What have we that we have not received ? How then can we boast ? Are we dressed in the robe of Christ’s righteousness ? We did not put a thread into it; it was all given us by the charity of Jesus. Are our garments white ? We have washed them in the blood of the Lamb. Are we new creatures ? We have been created anew by omnipotent power, or we should still be as we were.

From a sermon by Charles Haddon Spurgeon entitled “The Weaned Child.”

On this day...

• Job 1 - 2023
• Nehemiah 5 - 2023
• Two things are absolutely necessary for salvation. We must repent, and we must believe the Gospel - 2011
• It is when I turn to Christ, when I give myself up to His Personality, that I first begin to have a personality of my own - 2011
• "We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms. - 2011
• This is certain- that God, who was formerly invisible, has now appeared in Christ - 2011
• WHEREVER you are, wherever you go, you are miserable unless you turn to God. - 2011
• I must deliberately step out, placing my faith in God and in His truth - 2011
• I am quite certain that, if God had not chosen me, I should never have chosen Him. - 2011
• Blessed be His name, he at last gave us the effectual blow of grace - 2011