Who would wish to dwell
among the nations and to be numbered with them?
Why, even the
professing church is such that to follow the LORD fully within its
bounds is very difficult.
There is such a mingling and mixing that one
often sighs for "a lodge in some vast wilderness."
Certain it is that
the LORD would have His people follow a separated path as to the world
and come out decidedly and distinctly from it.
We are set apart by the
divine decree, purchase, and calling, and our inward experience has made
us greatly to differ from men of the world...
And therefore our place is
not in their Vanity Fair, nor in their City of Destruction,
but in the narrow way where all true pilgrims must follow their LORD.
This may not only reconcile us to the world's cold shoulder and sneers
but even cause us to accept them with pleasure as being a part of our
covenant portion.
Our names are not in the same book...
We are not of the
same seed...
We are not bound for the same place...
Neither are we trusting
to the same guide...
Therefore it is well that we are not of their number.
Only let us be found in the number of the redeemed...
And we are content
to be off and solitary to the end of the chapter.
~Charles Spurgeon~
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