06/05/23  It's A Great Day,  Real Southern Woman
Channel: REAL SOUTHERN WOMAN, COLLARD VALLEY COOK
Date: 05/06/2023

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June 5th, 2023
Charles Spurgeon’s Devotional Morning Reading
Some words defined for a clearer meaning by Tammy Nichols
Reference location: https://www.blueletterbible.org/devotionals/me/view.cfm?Time=am
Noah was shut in away from all the world by the hand of divine love. The door of electing purpose interjects between us and the world which lies in the wicked one. We are not of the world even as our Lord Jesus was not of the world. Into the sin, the cheerfulness, 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 God Himself intended to dwell in the ark with His servant and his family. Then, all the chosen dwell in God and God in them.
Happy people to be surrounded in the same circle which contains God in the Trinity of His persons, Father, Son, and Spirit. Let us never be distracted 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 fury be over past." Noah was so shut in that no evil could reach him. Floods did but lift him heavenward, and winds did but sail 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 for ever. They shall go no more out for ever, for immortal faithfulness has shut them in, and hell’s wickedness cannot drag them out.
The Prince of the house of David (JESUS) shuts and no man opens; 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 for ever. Lord, shut me in by Thy grace.