Ezekiel 16:5 None eye pitied you, to do any of these to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field… I know some think that the sinner takes the first step, but, we know better. If he did, it were like the old Romish miracle of St. Dennis, where we are told that after his head was off, he picked it up and walked two thousand miles with it in his hand. Whereupon, some wit observed that he did not see any wonder in the man's walking two thousand miles, for all the difficulty lay in the first step. Just so, I see no difficulty in a man's getting all the way to heaven if he can but take the first step; for all the miracle lies in that first step — the making the dead soul live, the melting the adamantine heart, the thawing of the northern ice, the bringing down of the proud look — this is the work, this is the difficulty; and if man can do that himself, verily he can do the whole. But when God looketh upon men to save them, it is not because they cry to Him, for they never do and never will cry until the work of salvation is begun. ( C. H. Spurgeon.) Parallel Verses KJV: None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born. |
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