Dear Friends,

Do you ever get down and look at the apparently good times worldly friends are having and start to envy them? If the times are so good, why do they have to be fueled by alcohol and/or drugs? And what waits at the end of the road? Today’s devotional will help. God bless you.

Because of Calvary,

John Janney

• John 10:10

  John 10:10   English Standard Version (ESV)
  10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

John 10:10

“We cannot fall into the insanity of living with such miserable ends and objects as those which are compassed within the short pale of our existence here below. It has become slavery to us; and I bear witness for myself and for you also, that we do not forsake the pleasures of the world because we think that we are denying ourselves. It is no self-denial to us, for they would not please us. I have gone by a whole line of sties, and seen the pigs feeding greedily; but I never thought that I was denying myself because I did not feed with them. I never wished to have a law passed that the unclean beasts should not have their swill. No, let them have it, and as much as they can eat; and we say just the same of the pleasures of the carnal man. We do not envy him that which is so great a relish, it is no self-denial to us to go without it; we have come out of that style of living, and we do not want to go back to it.” [Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit XLIII, (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1897), p. 381]