December 7, Morning
C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling
"Base things of the world hath God chosen." — 1 Corinthians 1:28 · KJV
Walk the streets by moonlight, if you dare, and you will see sinners. Watch when the night is dark, the wind howling, and the picklock grating in the door, and you will see sinners. Go to yonder jail, and walk through the wards, and mark the men with heavy overhanging brows — men you would not like to meet at night — and there are sinners there. Go to the reformatories, and note those who have shown a rampant youthful depravity, and you will see sinners there. Cross the seas to the place where a man will gnaw a bone reeking with human flesh, and there is a sinner. Go where you will, you need not ransack the earth to find sinners, for they are common enough; you may find them in every lane and street of every city, town, village, and hamlet. It is for such that Jesus died. Choose me the grossest specimen of humanity — if he is but born of woman, I will have hope of him yet, because Jesus Christ has come to seek and to save sinners. Electing love has selected some of the worst to be made the best. Pebbles of the brook grace turns into jewels for the royal crown; worthless dross He transforms into pure gold. Redeeming love has set apart many of the worst of mankind to be the reward of the Savior's passion; effectual grace calls forth many of the vilest of the vile to sit at the table of mercy — and so let none despair. Reader, by that love looking out of Jesus' tearful eyes, by that love streaming from those bleeding wounds, by that faithful love, that strong love, that pure, selfless, and abiding love, by the heart and the tender compassion of the Savior, we beg you: turn not away as though it were nothing to you, but believe on Him, and you shall be saved. Trust your soul with Him, and He will bring you to His Father's right hand in glory everlasting.