June 23 | Evening
6/23/20263 min
❖ This is the devotional for the evening of June 23.
❖ The Scripture for this devotion is Romans 8:23.
❖ This podcast comes from Crossway's new edition of 'Morning and Evening' written by Charles H. Spurgeon and revised by Alistair Begg. This podcast is narrated by Frazer Blaxland.
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[calm music] June 23rd, evening. We wait eagerly for adoption as sons. Romans chapter 8 verse 23. Even in this world, saints are God's children, but the only way that people will discover this is by certain moral characteristics. The adoption is not displayed. The children are not yet openly declared. Among the Romans, a man might adopt a child and keep it private for a long time. But there was a second adoption in public when the child was brought before the constituted authorities. Its old clothes were removed, and the father who took it to be his child gave it clothing suitable to its new status in life. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared. We are not yet clothed in the apparel of heaven's royal family. We are wearing in this flesh and blood just what we wore as the children of Adam. But we know that when He appears who is the firstborn among many brothers, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is. Can't you imagine that a child taken from the lowest ranks of society