No Good Apart From You

“Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge. I say to the LORD, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.” (Psalm 16:1-2)

We are often so quick to pass judgment on others. It is much easier to look at the faults of others than it is to focus on our own and keep those things before the Lord. Charles Spurgeon reminds us that without God's forgiveness through Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross, we are no better than those we accuse, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” (John 8:7)

There is cause for fear, dear brethren and sisters, who love the Lord, because corruption still remaineth in us. In the best man or woman here, there is still the old flesh that lusts against the spirit, that flesh which is in constant enmity to the spirit, and never will be reconciled to it. If that flesh keeps quiet for a time, it is there all the while, just as a lion is still a lion even when he is lying hidden in his den. He only needs some dark hour to come, and he will rush forth from his den; so is it with the flesh which still lurks within us. When a man imagines that all his corruptions are gone, that is no proof that he is clean rid of them, but only that he does not really know his true condition; for, if God were but to lift the veil that covers his eyes, and to let, him see the great deeps of sin that are in his nature, he would soon discover that he has grave cause for fear, and he would be driven to cry out to God, “Oh, keep me, I beseech thee, or else I shall commit spiritual suicide! I must and shall become like the vilest of apostates, unless thy sovereign grace shall hold me on my way.” Charles Spurgeon

GiGi❤️

Discussion Questions:

1) What scripture(s) can we use to encourage ourselves and others about human imperfection?

2) What fruit of the spirit can be used to address self-righteousness?