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Morning and Evening

January 22, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?" — Ezekiel 15:2 · KJV

These words are meant to humble God's people. They are called God's vine, but what are they by nature more than others? By God's goodness they have become fruitful, planted in good soil; the Lord has trained them along the walls of the sanctuary, and they bear fruit to His glory — but what are they without their God? What are they without the continual influence of the Spirit, begetting fruitfulness in them? O believer, learn to reject pride, for you have no ground for it. Whatever you are, you have nothing to be proud of. The more you have, the more you are in debt to God; and you should not be proud of what makes you a debtor. Consider your origin; look back to what you were. Consider what you would have been but for divine grace. Look at yourself as you are now: does your conscience not reproach you? Do not your thousand wanderings rise before you and tell you that you are unworthy to be called His child? And if He has made you anything, are you not thereby taught that it is grace which has made you to differ? Great believer, you would have been a great sinner if God had not made you to differ. O you who are valiant for the truth, you would have been just as valiant for error if grace had not laid hold of you. So do not be proud, though you have a large estate — a wide domain of grace — for once you had not a single thing to call your own except your sin and misery. Oh, strange folly, that you, who have borrowed everything, should think of exalting yourself: a poor dependent pensioner on the bounty of your Savior, one whose very life would die without fresh streams of life from Jesus, and yet proud! Shame on you, O foolish heart!