WILLING, In the Day of His Power

“WILLING, IN THE DAY OF HIS POWER”

“Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness

from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.”

Psalm 110:8.

“We can tell who are the children by the fact that they are willing. I preach to many of you times

without number. I tell you of hell; I bid you flee from it; I tell you of Christ, I bid you look to him, but you are unwilling to do so. What do I conclude from that? Either that the day of God’s power has not yet come, or that you are not God’s people. When I preach with power and the word is dispensed with unction, if I see you unmoved and misettled, unwilling to cast yourselves on Jesus Christ, what say I? Why, I fear those are not God’s people, for God’s people are willing in the day of his power, willing to submit to sovereign grace, to give themselves up into the hands of the Mediator, to hang simply on his cross for salvation. I ask again what has made them willing? Must it not have been something in grace which has turned their Will? If the will of man be purely free to do right or wrong, I conjure you, my friends, to answer this: if it be so, why do you not turn to God this very moment without divine assistance? It is because you are not willing, and it needed a promise that God’s people should be willing in the day of his power.”

[Spurgeon, MTP, Vol. 2, p. 269]