Thus says the Lord: "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.
But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'" --Jeremiah 6:16

 

27 November, 2005   comments: (0) Classic Devotion   The Inhabitants of Earth Are Accounted as Nothing Photos like these make it vividly clear just how very small we are, and how big God is. And as this classic sermon on Daniel 4:34-35 reminds us - there was once a time when we were in deed "nothing", and if God were to will it, we would cease to be. At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation; all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, "What have you done?" Excerpts From The Unconquerable King Charles Spurgeon 1870: Concerning all of us who are gathered here - it is certain that there was a time when we were not - we were then in very deed "nothing." At this very moment, also, if God wills it, we may cease to be, and so in a step return to nothing. We are nothing in ourselves, we are only what he chooses to allow us to be..., and when the time comes and it will be a very short time, so far as this world is concerned we shall be nothing. All that will remain of us among the sons of men will be some little hillock in a cemetery or a country churchyard, for we shall have no part in anything which is done under the sun. ... Here let me remind you that every man who is spiritually taught of God is made to feel [by experience] on his own account his own utter nothingness. When his inner eye, like that of Job, beholdeth the Lord, he abhors himself, he shrinks into the earth, he feels he cannot contrast or compare himself with the Most High even for a single second. "Great God, how infinite art thou! What worthless worms are we!" is the verse which naturally leaps to the lip of any man who knows himself and knows his God. Spiritually, our nothingness is very conspicuous. We were nothing in our election: "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you;" "The children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;" "It is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy." We were nothing in our redemption; we contributed nothing to that price which Jesus paid: "I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me." We are nothing in our regeneration: can the spiritually dead help the blessed God to quicken them? "It is the Spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing." "We are his workmanship, created anew in Christ Jesus." We shall, when we get to heaven, make it part of our adoration to confess that we are less than nothing and vanity, but that God is all in all; therefore shall we cast our crowns at his feet, and give him all the praise for ever and ever. Posted by: Jim B.   Link: http://www.oldtruth.com/blog.cfm/id.2.pid.118   Be the first to post a comment about this article        Home  |   About  |  Videos   |  Calvinism