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Morning and Evening

September 21, Evening

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"Gather not my soul with sinners." — Psalm 26:9 · KJV

Fear made David pray this way, for something whispered, "Perhaps, after all, you may be gathered with the wicked." That fear, though marred by unbelief, springs mainly from a holy anxiety that rises out of the memory of past sin. Even the pardoned man will ask, "What if at the end my sins should be remembered, and I should be left out of the list of the saved?" He recalls his present unfruitfulness — so little grace, so little love, so little holiness; and looking to the future, he considers his weakness and the many temptations that beset him, and fears he may fall and become the enemy's prey. A sense of sin and present evil, and his prevailing corruptions, force him to pray, in fear and trembling, "Gather not my soul with sinners." Reader, if you have prayed this prayer, and if your character is rightly described in the Psalm it comes from, you need not fear that you will be gathered with sinners. Have you the two virtues David had — the outward walking in integrity, and the inward trusting in the Lord? Are you resting on Christ's sacrifice, and can you come around the altar of God with humble hope? If so, rest assured you shall never be gathered with the wicked, for that calamity is impossible. The gathering at the judgment is like to like: "Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into My barn." If, then, you are like God's people, you shall be with God's people. You cannot be gathered with the wicked, for you are too dearly bought. Redeemed by the blood of Christ, you are His for ever, and where He is, there must His people be. You are loved too much to be cast away with the reprobate. Shall one dear to Christ perish? Impossible! Hell cannot hold you; heaven claims you; trust in your Surety, and fear not!