Lost, Christ the Savior of the – Charles Spurgeon

SOME whom Christ saves are lost socially. They are not mentioned in the family now. It brings such a pang to the mother’s heart, such a flush to the father’s cheek. They could not enter now into any respectable society; they are marked men and marked women. There are some who are lost even before the laws of the land. The hand of justice has been laid upon them, and they are under the law; they are even marked as felons, it may be. And yet the Son of Man has come to seek and to save those who are socially lost. When the gates of society are shut, the gates of mercy are not shut. When man considers the case to be utterly hopeless, and men are put as it were into a sort of lazar-house, lest the infection should spread, Jesus walks into the lazar-house, and touches the leper, and says, “I will; be you clean.” You may shut them out from yourselves, but not from the Savior. When they have come to the worst, and have run their round of dissipation, until they themselves are jaded and sick, still can the Master step in and whisper into that ear, rendered attentive by pain and sickness, and snatch the fire-brand from the flame, to the glory of his own grace.