Even the pardoned man will enquire,
"What if at the end my sins should be remembered, and I should be left out of the catalog of the saved?"
He recollects his present unfruitfulness--so little grace, so little love, so little holiness, and looking forward to the future, he considers his weakness and the many temptations which beset him, and he fears that he may fall, and become a prey to the enemy. A sense of sin and present evil, and his prevailing corruptions, compel him to pray, in fear and trembling,
"Gather not my soul with sinners."
Reader, if you have prayed this prayer, and if your character be rightly described in the Psalm from which it is taken, you need not be afraid that you shall be gathered with sinners...
You can not be gathered with the wicked, for you are too dearly bought. Redeemed by the blood of Christ, you are his forever, and where he is, there must his people be. You are loved too much to be cast away with reprobates.
Shall one dear to Christ perish? Impossible!
Hell can not hold thee!
Heaven claims thee!
Trust in thy Surety and fear not!.
C.H. Spurgeon
