3 AUGUST (1873)
The world on fire
‘Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness.’ 2 Peter 3:11
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Psalm 90:1–17
I saw yesterday with much solemnity of mind the spot where the Bishop of Winchester met with sudden death. A cross is cut in the turf to mark the place. The spot is in the midst of the most lovely scenery conceivable. I have often walked hard by, full of delight at the fair prospect. It is a spot too fair to be darkened by so dark a cloud; death seems hardly congruous with the beauty which everywhere charms the eye.
I could only imagine, if anyone knew that he should die at that moment, what would be his conversation. What would be the conversation of a man of God riding over the downs, who expected to die in the valley below? Such ought to be our constant conversation. We should live always as if we might die in a moment. Mr. Wesley once said, ‘Now, if I knew I should die tomorrow morning, I would do exactly what I have planned to do. I should take the class-meeting at such an hour, preach at such an hour and be up at such a time in the morning to pray.’ That good man’s life was spent in prospect of sudden departure, and it was therefore active and holy. Is ours the same?
The motive for holiness becomes stronger still if the thought is not merely that I shall die, but that ‘all these things’ around me ‘shall be dissolved’. That breezy down, that towering hill, yonder lofty trees, this overhanging cliff, these rich meadows, the ripening harvest, all will in a moment be in a blaze. Am I ready to be caught away to be with my Lord in the air? Or shall I be left to perish amidst the conflagration? How ought I to live? How ought I to stand as it were on tip-toe, ready when he shall call me, to be away up into the glory, far off from this perishing world!
FOR MEDITATION: ‘Prepare to meet thy God’ (Amos 4:12); it may happen out of the blue (Luke 12:40). Peter presumed he was ready before he was (Luke 22:33–34), but Paul knew when he was ready (Acts 21:13).
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 226.
The world on fire
‘Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness.’ 2 Peter 3:11
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Psalm 90:1–17
I saw yesterday with much solemnity of mind the spot where the Bishop of Winchester met with sudden death. A cross is cut in the turf to mark the place. The spot is in the midst of the most lovely scenery conceivable. I have often walked hard by, full of delight at the fair prospect. It is a spot too fair to be darkened by so dark a cloud; death seems hardly congruous with the beauty which everywhere charms the eye.
I could only imagine, if anyone knew that he should die at that moment, what would be his conversation. What would be the conversation of a man of God riding over the downs, who expected to die in the valley below? Such ought to be our constant conversation. We should live always as if we might die in a moment. Mr. Wesley once said, ‘Now, if I knew I should die tomorrow morning, I would do exactly what I have planned to do. I should take the class-meeting at such an hour, preach at such an hour and be up at such a time in the morning to pray.’ That good man’s life was spent in prospect of sudden departure, and it was therefore active and holy. Is ours the same?
The motive for holiness becomes stronger still if the thought is not merely that I shall die, but that ‘all these things’ around me ‘shall be dissolved’. That breezy down, that towering hill, yonder lofty trees, this overhanging cliff, these rich meadows, the ripening harvest, all will in a moment be in a blaze. Am I ready to be caught away to be with my Lord in the air? Or shall I be left to perish amidst the conflagration? How ought I to live? How ought I to stand as it were on tip-toe, ready when he shall call me, to be away up into the glory, far off from this perishing world!
FOR MEDITATION: ‘Prepare to meet thy God’ (Amos 4:12); it may happen out of the blue (Luke 12:40). Peter presumed he was ready before he was (Luke 22:33–34), but Paul knew when he was ready (Acts 21:13).
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 226.
3 AUGUST (1873)
The world on fire
‘Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness.’ 2 Peter 3:11
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Psalm 90:1–17
I saw yesterday with much solemnity of mind the spot where the Bishop of Winchester met with sudden death. A cross is cut in the turf to mark the place. The spot is in the midst of the most lovely scenery conceivable. I have often walked hard by, full of delight at the fair prospect. It is a spot too fair to be darkened by so dark a cloud; death seems hardly congruous with the beauty which everywhere charms the eye.
I could only imagine, if anyone knew that he should die at that moment, what would be his conversation. What would be the conversation of a man of God riding over the downs, who expected to die in the valley below? Such ought to be our constant conversation. We should live always as if we might die in a moment. Mr. Wesley once said, ‘Now, if I knew I should die tomorrow morning, I would do exactly what I have planned to do. I should take the class-meeting at such an hour, preach at such an hour and be up at such a time in the morning to pray.’ That good man’s life was spent in prospect of sudden departure, and it was therefore active and holy. Is ours the same?
The motive for holiness becomes stronger still if the thought is not merely that I shall die, but that ‘all these things’ around me ‘shall be dissolved’. That breezy down, that towering hill, yonder lofty trees, this overhanging cliff, these rich meadows, the ripening harvest, all will in a moment be in a blaze. Am I ready to be caught away to be with my Lord in the air? Or shall I be left to perish amidst the conflagration? How ought I to live? How ought I to stand as it were on tip-toe, ready when he shall call me, to be away up into the glory, far off from this perishing world!
FOR MEDITATION: ‘Prepare to meet thy God’ (Amos 4:12); it may happen out of the blue (Luke 12:40). Peter presumed he was ready before he was (Luke 22:33–34), but Paul knew when he was ready (Acts 21:13).
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 226.
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