Spurgeon Saturday
The Magnetic Messiah
“As the magnet seeks the steel, so does my Master, in his magnetic and magnificent mercy, search out those who most need him.
Not you healthy ones, does the great Physician seek, but it is the sick whom he invites to come unto him.
Not you good people, who hope to enter heaven by your own works, does he call, but you sinful ones. “In due time Christ died for the ungodly.”
It is sinners whom he calls to come unto him; ay, and those sinners who fail in all their attempts at improvement; those who labour to get better, yet who are not better, but are burdened more and more with the despairing fear that they must ultimately be lost—it is such as these whom Jesus invites to come unto him.
Oh, hear this, ye labouring ones, and ye who are heavy laden! The Lord of glory cries to sinful worms of the dust, and beseeches them to come unto him that he may give them rest.”
There’s something deeply comforting in this image — that Christ’s movement toward us isn’t driven by our progress but by our need. The idea that mercy itself is magnetic cuts against the instinct to clean ourselves up before coming to Him. It reminds me that love, at its core, moves toward weakness rather than away from it. I’ve been writing about something similar — how love begins to feel different when fear and striving stop being the center — if you’d like to read it here: https://theeternalnowmm.substack.com/p/eternal-love?r=71z4jh