day no. 14,334: morning and evening

This morning in Spurgeon's Morning and Evening I read the following:

"And the evening and the morning were the first day." - Genesis 1:5

The evening was "darkness" and the morning was "light," and yet the two together are called by the name that is given to the light alone! This is somewhat remarkable, but it has an exact analogy in spiritual experience. In every believer there is darkness and light, and yet he is not to be named a sinner because there is sin in him, but he is to be named a saint because he possesses some degree of holiness.

I came across the same sentiment recently when listening to a Mark Driscoll sermon from the book of Colossians 1:1-2 where he established our identity as Christians is "Saint," because God said so. Sinner describes what we do sometimes, Saint describes who we are all the time. Our identity is not sinner or it would continue with us into eternity because our identity is static and unchanging. Who we are in Christ is saints. We may have darkness left in us, but we are called light. There may be still be nights, but we are called day.