Dear Friends,

Have you decided who is Lord, you or God? If you are asking, “What do you mean?” today’s devotional will help. God bless you.

Because of Calvary,

John Janney

James 4:10

“Of all things that are contemptible, a proud bearing towards the Lord Jesus is the most hateful; yet it is by no means unusual. Some seem to fancy that Jesus is their servant, at their beck and call; and they talk about his salvation as though he ought to give it, and they could claim it for themselves and all mankind. If we speak about the sovereign choice of some unto eternal life, they begin chattering about injustice and partiality: as if any guilty man had a right to anything from the Lord of glory, except the dreadful right to be punished for his sins. I think I hear the Master say, ‘May I not do as I will with my own?’ Many of those who pretend to be the advocates of grace, are the betrayers of it, and snatch from its hand the silver scepter of its sovereignty…. Depend upon it, God will be God; and if you will not be saved without his leaving the throne of his sovereignty, then you will perish without hope. He will be King and Lord in the work of salvation; you must take it as his free gift, or die without it.” [Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit XXXVI, (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1890), p. 472-473]