No Favoritism With God.
By N. Adams, D. D.
As we see Israel coming out of Egypt, under the protection and by the special hand of God, we mourn to remember that multitudes of that rejoicing people failed to reach Canaan. It is not enough to leave Egypt; it is not enough to be numbered with the people of God. "I will therefore put you in rememberance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterwards destroyed them that believed not." No token of Divine favor, no privileges, no high standard among the people of God, give us any exemption from punishment if we wilfully sin. There is no favoritism with God towards the most distinguished of his servants, if they commit iniquity. For "He spared not the angels which sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment." We serve a jealous God. If we make Christ a minister of sin, by continuing in sin that grace may abound, all his unutterable work of suffering and death will be a stone to fall upon us; we shall go from the Lord's Table from Communion Sabbaths, to a deep and intolerable place, in misery and despair. Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.—N. Adams, D. D.