Morning, June 5
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“The Lord shut him in.”
Genesis 7:16
Noah was shut in away from all the world by the hand of divine love.
The door of electing purpose interposes between us and the world which
lieth in the wicked one. We are not of the world even as our Lord
Jesus was not of the world. Into the sin, the gaiety, the pursuits
of the multitude we cannot enter; we cannot play in the streets of
Vanity Fair with the children of darkness, for our heavenly Father
has shut us in. Noah was shut in with his God. “Come thou into the ark,” was the Lord’s invitation, by which he clearly showed that he himself intended
to dwell in the ark with his servant and his family. Thus all the
chosen dwell in God and God in them. Happy people to be enclosed in
the same circle which contains God in the Trinity of his persons,
Father, Son, and Spirit. Let us never be inattentive to that gracious
call, “Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors
about thee, and hide thyself as it were for a little moment until
the indignation be overpast.” Noah was so shut in that no evil could reach him . Floods did but lift him heavenward, and winds did but waft him on
his way. Outside of the ark all was ruin, but inside all was rest
and peace. Without Christ we perish, but in Christ Jesus there is
perfect safety. Noah was so shut in that he could not even desire to come out , and those who are in Christ Jesus are in him forever. They shall
go no more out forever, for eternal faithfulness has shut them in,
and infernal malice cannot drag them out. The Prince of the house
of David shutteth and no man openeth; and when once in the last days
as Master of the house he shall rise up and shut the door, it will
be in vain for mere professors to knock, and cry Lord, Lord open unto
us, for that same door which shuts in the wise virgins will shut out
the foolish forever. Lord, shut me in by thy grace.