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Morning and Evening

June 27, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"Only ye shall not go very far away." — Exodus 8:28 · KJV

This is a cunning word from the lips of the tyrant Pharaoh. If the enslaved Israelites simply must leave Egypt, then he bargains that it shall not be very far away, not far enough to escape the reach of his army or the eyes of his spies. The world deals with us in exactly the same way. It has no patience with a faith that refuses to blend in; it wants us to be more accommodating and not press matters so strictly. Death to the world and burial with Christ are experiences that the unspiritual mind treats as a joke, and so the very ordinance that pictures them is widely neglected and even despised. Worldly wisdom recommends the path of compromise and talks a great deal about "moderation." According to that reasoning, purity is admitted to be desirable, but we are warned against being too exact; truth is to be followed, of course, but error must not be named too sharply. "Yes," says the world, "be spiritually minded by all means, but do not deny yourself a little lively company, a night out now and then, a holiday amusement. What is the use of condemning a thing when it is so fashionable and everybody does it?" Crowds who claim the name of Christ give in to this shrewd advice, to their own everlasting ruin. If we mean to follow the Lord completely, we must go right out into the wilderness of separation and leave the Egypt of the worldly life behind us. We must leave its sayings, its pleasures, and its religion too, and go far away to the place where the Lord calls those He has set apart. When the town is on fire, your house cannot be too far from the flames. When plague is loose, no one can live too far from where it breeds. The further from a viper the better, and the further from conformity to the world the better. So let the trumpet call sound to all true believers, "Come ye out from among them, be ye separate."