Gather not my Soul with Sinners - Spurgeon Devotional Morning & Evening ...

 Gather Not my Soul

An Encouraging Message to Believers from the Pen of Charles H. Spurgeon

 "Gather not my soul with sinners." - Psalm 26:9

all, thou mayst be gathered with the wicked." That fear, although marred
   Fear made David pray thus, for something whispered, "Perhaps, after

recollection of past sin. Even the pardoned man will enquire, "What if at
by unbelief, springs, in the main, from holy anxiety, arising from the
the end my sins should be remembered, and I should be left out of the

little grace, so little love, so little holiness, and looking forward to
catalogue of the saved?" He recollects his present unfruitfulness--so
the future, he considers his weakness and the many temptations which beset

to pray, in fear and trembling, "Gather not my soul with sinners." Reader,
him, and he fears that he may fall, and become a prey to the enemy. A
sense of sin and present evil, and his prevailing corruptions, compel him

afraid that you shall be gathered with sinners. Have you the two virtues
if you have prayed this prayer, and if your character be rightly described
in the Psalm from which it is taken [the 26th Psalm], you need not be

the altar of God with humble hope? If so, rest assured, with the wicked
which David had--the outward walking in integrity, and the inward trusting
in the Lord? Are you resting upon Christ's sacrifice, and can you compass
you never shall be gathered, for that calamity is impossible. The

people. You cannot be gathered with the wicked, for you are too dearly
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, thou art like God's people, thou shalt be with God's

                        

- from Spurgeon's daily devotional book entitled,
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 reprobates. Shall one dear to Christ perish? Impossible! Hell cannot
hold thee! Heaven claims thee! Trust in thy Surety and fear not!


                                     "Evening by Evening"  (Sept. 21)

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