Spurgeon Meditations

 

In the name of the Lord I will destroy them.

Psa 118 12

Our Lord Jesus by His death did not purchase a right to a part of us only but to the entire man. He contemplated in His passion the sanctification of us wholly spirit soul and body; that in this triple kingdom He Himself might reign supreme without a rival. It is the business of the newborn nature which God has given to the regenerate to assert the rights of the Lord Jesus Christ. My soul so far as thou art a child of God thou must conquer all the rest of thyself which yet remains unblest; thou must subdue all thy powers and passions to the silver sceptre of Jesus' gracious reign and thou must never be satisfied till He who is King by purchase becomes also King by gracious coronation and reigns in thee supreme. Seeing then that sin has no right to any part of us we go about a good and lawful warfare when we seek in the name of God to drive it out. O my body thou art a member of Christ: shall I tolerate thy subjection to the prince of darkness? O my soul Christ has suffered for thy sins and redeemed thee with His most precious blood: shall I suffer thy memory to become a storehouse of evil or thy passions to be firebrands of iniquity? Shall I surrender my judgment to be perverted by error or my will to be led in fetters of iniquity? No my soul thou art Christ's and sin hath no right to thee. Be courageous concerning this O Christian! be not dispirited as though your spiritual enemies could never be destroyed. You are able to overcome them--not in your own strength--the weakest of them would be too much for you in that; but you can and shall overcome them through the blood of the Lamb. Do not ask How shall I dispossess them, for they aregreater and mightier than I? but go to the strong for strength wait humbly upon God and the mighty God of Jacob will surely come to the rescue and you shall sing of victory through His grace.


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