May 4 Evening Devotional | Our Royal Nature | Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Evening, May 4 | “You have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable.” —1 Peter 1:23 (NASB)

This Morning's Scripture Reading: 1 Peter 1:22-25 (NASB)

Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart, 23for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God. For,
“All flesh is like grass,
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
And the flower falls off,
But the word of the Lord endures forever.”
And this is the word which was preached to you.

Devotional Video Transcript:

Peter most earnestly exhorted the scattered saints to love each other “with a pure heart fervently” and he did so wisely, not based on the law, from nature, or philosophy, but from that high and divine nature which God has implanted in his people. Just as some judicious tutor of princes might labor to foster in them a kingly spirit and dignified behavior, finding arguments in their position and pedigree, so, looking upon God’s people as heirs of glory, princes of royal blood, descendants of the King of kings, earth’s truest and oldest aristocracy, Peter says to them, “See that you love one another, because of your noble birth, being born of incorruptible seed; because of your pedigree, being descended from God, the Creator of all things; and because of your immortal destiny, for you shall never pass away, though the glory of the flesh shall fade, and even its existence shall cease.”

It would be well if, in the spirit of humility, we recognized the true dignity of our regenerated nature, and lived up to it. What is a Christian? If you compare him with a king, he adds priestly sanctity to royal dignity. The king’s royalty often lies only in his crown, but with a Christian, it is infused into his inmost nature. He is as much above his fellows through his new birth, as a man is above the beast that perishes. Surely he ought to carry himself, in all his dealings, as one who is not of the multitude, but chosen out of the world, distinguished by sovereign grace, written among “the peculiar people” (Titus 2:14) and who, therefore, cannot grovel in the dust as others, nor live after the manner of the world’s citizens. Let the dignity of your nature, and the brightness of your prospects, O believer in Christ, constrain you to cleave unto holiness and to avoid the very appearance of evil.

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