July 6 Evening Devotional | The Magnitude of Sin | Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Evening, July 6 | “How many are my iniquities and sins? Make known to me my rebellion and my sin.” —Job 13:23 (NASB)

This Evening's Scripture Reading: Job 13:20-28 (NASB)

“Only two things do not do to me,
Then I will not hide from Your face:
Remove Your hand from me,
And let not the dread of You terrify me.
Then call, and I will answer;
Or let me speak, then reply to me.
How many are my iniquities and sins?
Make known to me my rebellion and my sin.
Why do You hide Your face
And consider me Your enemy?
Will You cause a driven leaf to tremble?
Or will You pursue the dry chaff?
For You write bitter things against me
And make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.
You put my feet in the stocks
And watch all my paths;
You set a limit for the soles of my feet,
While I am decaying like a rotten thing,
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Devotional Video Transcript:

Have you ever really weighed and considered how great the sin of God’s people is? Think how heinous is your own transgression, and you will find that not only does a sin here and there tower up like an alp, but that your iniquities are heaped upon each other, as in the old fable of the giants who piled Pelian upon Ossa, [The giant sons of Iphimedia who tried to reach Olympus by piling Mt. Pelian on Mt. Ossa (The Odyssey)] mountain upon mountain. What an aggregate of sin there is in the life of one of the most sanctified of God’s children! Attempt to multiply this, the sin of one only, by the multitude of the redeemed, “a number which no man can number,” (Revelation 7:9) and you will have some conception of the great mass of the guilt of the people for whom Jesus shed his blood. But we arrive at a more adequate idea of the magnitude of sin by the greatness of the remedy provided.

It is the blood of Jesus Christ, God’s only and well-beloved Son. God’s Son! Angels cast their crowns before him! All the choral symphonies of heaven surround his glorious throne. “God over all, blessed forever. Amen.” (Romans 9:5) And yet he takes upon himself the form of a servant and is scourged and pierced, bruised and torn, and at last slain; since nothing but the blood of the incarnate Son of God could make atonement for our offenses.

No human mind can adequately estimate the infinite value of the divine sacrifice, for as great as is the sin of God’s people, the atonement which takes it away is immeasurably greater. Therefore, the believer, even when sin rolls like a black flood, and the remembrance of the past is bitter, can yet stand before the blazing throne of the great and holy God, and cry,
“Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised.” (Romans 8:34) While the recollection of his sin fills him with shame and sorrow, he at the same time makes it a foil to show the brightness of mercy — guilt is the dark night in which the fair star of divine love shines with serene splendor.

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