For who makes you to differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? 1 Corinthians 4 verse 7 We are all fashioned from the same mold, hewed out of the same rock, made, as it were, of the same cloth, the path of the scissors making the only difference between one person and another. It is therefore only the free love and grace of God which makes all the difference between us. No believer should ever insolently demean the unsaved who, like miserable drudges, allow their corrupt nature to carry them to any villainy, lust, or lewd course, and who damn themselves in the devil's slavery. Alas, our hearts should bleed within us at beholding so many around us, imbrewing their cruel hands in the blood of their own souls by their ignorance, worldliness, drunkenness, lust, unbelief, and scoffing at true religion. What heart, except it be hewed out of the hardest rock, Or has sucked the breasts of merciless tigers, But would yearn and weep to see a man made of the same mold with himself, Willfully, as it were, against a thousand warnings, and God's many compassionate invitations cast Himself, body and soul, into the endless, easeless and remedulous miseries of hell. We should there rather pity and pray for such a one who follows the bent of his own evil heart to his own everlasting perdition. It is only the free mercy, goodness, and grace of God which has made the difference between them and us. If God should give us over to the unbridled current of our corrupt nature, we might be worse than them and run riot in this world of wickedness. If the same God visits them in mercy, they may become every way as godly or better than us. By the grace of God, I am what I am. 1 Corinthians 15 verse 10. This Puritan devotional has been brought to you by Grace Gems, a treasury of ageless Sovereign Grace writings. Please visit our website at www.gracegems.org, where you can browse and freely download thousands of choice books, sermons, and quotes, along with select audio messages. No donations accepted. Thank you.