Reverence and Awe

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Between today's "Morning" and "Evening" devotions Spurgeon seems to be explaining his view as it relates to pre-election.

He acknowledges in the morning session that the believer must receive Christ: "to accept His free gift and to realize Him as mine."

In the Morning writing he explains, "When I receive Jesus, He becomes my Saviour, so mine that neither life nor death shall be able to rob me of Him. All this is to receive Christ—to take Him as God's free gift; to realize Him in my heart, and to appropriate Him as mine."

In the evening devotion he comes full circle and completes his thoughts when he writes, "for when the gospel comes to some, they fight against it, and will not have it, but where men receive it, welcoming it, this is a sure indication that there is a secret work going on in the soul, and that God has chosen them unto eternal life."

This is a reminder that we are not even capable of performing the act without Him performing the "secret work in our soul" without which we would have "fought against it and not had it;" essentially running away from God.

This day I will contemplate this as I stand in awe of His Grace. I will thank Him that I had absolutely nothing to do with my salvation; for if I did I would have surely fouled it up. It was God who took hold of me and and moved in me.; because he chose me before the foundations of the earth were in place.