Tuesday April 9, 2024

Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

This thought has charmed me beyond measure. Here were Lot’s sins, scandalous sins, I cannot mention them; they were very different from David’s sins. Black sins, scarlet sins were those of David, but David’s sins are not at all like those of Manasseh; the sins of Manasseh were not the same as those of Peter—Peter sinned in quite a different track; and the woman that was a sinner, you could not liken her to Peter, neither if you look to her character could you set her side by side with Lydia; nor if you think of Lydia, can you see her without discovering a great divergence between her and the Philippian jailer. They are all alike—they have all ‘gone astray’; but they are all different—they ‘have turned every one to his own way’. But here is the blessed gathering up of them all—the Lord has caused to meet on the Redeemer, as in a common focus, the iniquity of them all; and up yonder Manasseh’s song joins sweetly with that of the woman who was a sinner, and Lydia, chaste but yet needing pardon, sings side by side with Bathsheba and Rahab; while David takes up the strain with Samson and Gideon, and these with Abraham and Isaac, all differently sinners. The atonement meets every case. We always think that man a quack who advertises a medicine as healing every disease, but when you come to the great gospel medicine, the precious blood of Jesus Christ, you have there in very deed what the old doctors used to call a catholicon, a universal medicine which meets every case in its distinctness, and puts away sin in all its separateness of guilt as if it were made for that sin, and for that sin alone.

C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 1) (Day One Publications, 1998)
Scripture for opening text taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®, ESV © 2016 by Crossway Bibles.
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