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Morning and Evening

June 6, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"Behold, I am vile." — Job 40:4 · KJV

One cheering word for you, poor lost sinner! You think you must not come to God because you are vile. But there is not a saint living on earth who has not been made to feel that he is vile. If Job, Isaiah, and Paul were all compelled to say, "I am vile," will you be ashamed to join in the same confession? If divine grace does not eradicate all sin from the believer, how do you hope to do it yourself? And if God loves His people while they are still vile, do you think your vileness will keep Him from loving you? Believe in Jesus, you outcast of the world's society! Jesus calls you just as you are, for He came to call not the righteous but sinners. Say even now, "You have died for sinners; I am a sinner, Lord Jesus; sprinkle Your blood on me." If you will confess your sin, you shall find pardon. If, with all your heart, you will say right now, "I am vile; wash me," you shall be washed at once. If the Holy Spirit enables you to cry from the heart that you come just as you are, without a single plea except that Christ's blood was shed for you and that He bids you come to Him, then you shall rise from this morning's reading with all your sins pardoned; and though you woke this morning with every sin ever committed on your head, you shall rest tonight accepted in the Beloved. Though once degraded in the rags of sin, you shall be adorned with a robe of righteousness and appear white as the angels are. For "now," mark it, "now is the accepted time." If you believe on Him who justifies the ungodly, you are saved. Oh, may the Holy Spirit give you saving faith in Him who receives the vilest.