Jan. 13
Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook
NEVER CAST OUT
"Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." John 6:37
Is there any instance of our Lord's casting out a coming one? If there
be so, we would like to know of it; but there has been none, and there
never will be. Among the lost souls in hell there is not one that can
say, "I went to Jesus, and He refused me." It is not possible that you
or I should be the first to whom Jesus shall break His word. Let us not
entertain so dark a suspicion.
Suppose we go to Jesus now about the evils of today. Of this we may be
sure -- He will not refuse us audience, or cast us out. Those of us who
have often been, and those who have never gone before -- let us go
together, and we shall see that He will not shut the door of His grace
in the face of any one of us.
"This man receiveth sinners," but He repulses none. We come to Him in
weakness and sin, with trembling faith, and small knowledge, and
slender hope; but He does not cast us out. We come by prayer, and that
prayer broken; with confession, and that confession faulty; with
praise, and that praise far short of His merits; but yet He receives
us. We come diseased, polluted, worn out, and worthless; but He doth in
no wise cast us out. Let us come again today to Him who never casts us
out.