Jan. 13
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.