A Devotion by Jack Manor
by Jack Manor
Thought: Being one of this world's "good men" does not make you God's. The keys are desire and surrender. God wants all men, but all men don't want God. Do you, by God's grace and Spirit, want God, and will you, by God's grace and Spirit, turn from your sin completely, and offer yourself fully to Jesus Christ?
Verse: "When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw (Jesus) eating with the 'sinners' and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: 'Why does he eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?' On hearing this, Jesus said to them, 'It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners'" (Mark 2:16-17).
Quote: "Often the most unlikely persons are the first to receive the Savior. The least likely person in the city of Jericho to receive Christ was this rich little tax-gatherer, Zacchaeus. When Christ went to his house they all murmured, saying that he was to be the guest of a man that was a sinner. Yet he was the one person in that place who did entertain the Lord Jesus Christ. And many a time since has Christ been shut out of good men's doors, or the doors of those who have reckoned themselves as good men. But He has found shelter within the gates of sinners, and such sinners as have been reputed among men to be utterly given over and hopeless." -- Charles Spurgeon
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