Faith's Checkbook (By: C.H. Spurgeon)

                                                                        Among the Redeemed

There! A people dwelling alone, not reckoning itself among the nations.
                                                                                 ~ Numbers 23:9

  "Who would wish to dwell among the nations and to be numbered with them?
  The Lord would have His people follow a separate path as to the world. We are set apart by the divine decree, purchase, and calling, and our inward experience has made us greatly to differ from men of the world. Therefore, our place is not with them, but in the narrow way where all true pilgrims must follow their Lord.
  This may not reconcile us to the world's cold shoulder and sneers, but our names are not in the same book; we are not of the same seed; we are not bound for the same place; neither are we trusting to the same guide.
  Therefore, it is well that we are not of their number. Only let us be found in the number of the redeemed, and we are content to be odd and solitary to the end of the chapter." (By: Charles H. Spurgeon ~ One Minute Devotions)