CHARLES SPURGEON: MEET THE ONLY GOD THERE IS

Ken Silva wrote over on the appraising ministries blog (http://apprising.org/)"From the Charles Spurgeon devotional At the Master’s Feet for January 20. Using the Sword of the Spirit Spurgeon slices through the mystic mist of the mush god of contemporary Christendom:

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. (Galatians 6:7-8, KJV)

And we now declare that the God of Holy Scripture is a God of inflexible justice, He is not the God Whom some of you adore. You adore a god who winks at great sins; you believe in a god who calls your crimes peccadillos and little faults. Some of you worship a god who does not punish sin but who is so weakly merciful, and mercilessly weak, that he passes by transgressions and iniquity and never enacts a punishment.

You believe in a god who, if man sins, does not demand punishment for his offense. You think that a few good works of your own will pacify him, that he is so weak a ruler that a few good words uttered before him in prayer will win sufficient merit to reverse the sentence, if indeed you think he ever passes a sentence at all. Your god is no God; he is as much a false god of the Greeks or of ancient Nineveh.

The God of Scripture is one who is inflexibly severe in justice and will by no means clear the guilty. “The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked” (Nahum 1:3, KJV). The God of Scripture is a Ruler who, when His subjects rebel, marks their crime and never forgives them until He was punished it, either"

We all (I am the Chief of Sinners here) must fight the urge to create a god in our own image and with the Israelites of old dance around our creation and proclaim "This is the god who brought me up from the land of Egypt"or"This is my personal Lord and Savior", and "My God is this". God forgive me and and help me to see that my reasoning is just as silly as Aaron's "So I said to them 'Let any who have gold take it off.' So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf." The only remedy for this is to throw ourselves into the Word and get to know the God as he has revealed himself.