…wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God… – Hebrews 11:16
Have you not sometimes heard of a man who has become rich and has risen in the world, who has had some poor brother or some distant relative. When he has seen him in the street, he has been obliged to speak to him and own him. But oh, how reluctantly it was done. I dare say he wished him a long way off, especially if he had some haughty acquaintance with him at the time, who would perhaps turn round, and say, “Why, who is that wretched, seedy-looking fellow you spoke to?” He does not like to say, “That’s my brother;” or “That’s a relative of mine.” Not so our Lord Jesus Christ. However low His people may sink, He is not ashamed to call them brethren. They may look up to Him in all the depths of their degradation. They may call Him a brother. He is in very fact a brother, born for their adversity, able and ready to redress their grievances, He is not ashamed to call them brethren. One reason for this seems to me to be, because He does not judge of them according to their present circumstances, but much rather according to their pleasant prospects. He takes account of what He has prepared for them…You see his outward attire, not his inner self- you see the earthly tabernacle, but the spirit newborn, immortal and divine- you see not that. Howbeit, God does. Or, if you have spiritual discernment to perceive the spiritual creature, you only see it as it is veiled by reason of the flesh and beclouded by the atmosphere of this world; but He sees it as it will appear, when it shall be radiant like unto Christ, without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing. God sees the poorest, the least proficient disciple as a man in Christ; a perfect man come unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; such indeed as he will be in that day when he shall see Christ, for then he shall be like Him as He is. ~ C.H. Spurgeon
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