11 OCTOBER (1874)
The claims of God
‘Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting: and his truth endureth to all generations.’ Psalm 100:3–5
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: 1 Samuel 15:10–31
If ever this driveling age of little men is to be lifted up into something like respectability and redeemed from the morass of falsehood in which it lies festering, we must breed a race of men who mean to serve God come what may, and to make no reckoning but this: ‘Is this right? It shall be done. Is this wrong? Then it shall cease.’ There must be no compromise, no talk about marring our usefulness and spoiling our position by being too exact.
Usefulness and position! Let them be marred and spoiled if truth comes in the way, for God is to be followed into the jungle and down the wild beasts’ throats and into the jaws of hell, if he leads the way. God must be the guide, and if we follow God it shall be well with us. But if we do not, that which man thinks easiest is after all the hardest. He thinks it easiest to be as near right as you can, but to run no risks; he thinks it best to keep peace at home, to yield many points, and not to be too puritanical and too precise. That is the easy way, the way which God abhors, and the way which will end in a festering conscience at last and in being shut out of heaven.
But the way to serve God is to be washed in the blood of Jesus, and then to obey the Lord without reserve and seek his honour only. This is the way to heaven, and when we reach those blissful seats we shall be all in tune with the perfected, for they serve the Lord day and night and find it bliss to do so. This preparation and service on earth is absolutely essential to the enjoyment of heaven above.
FOR MEDITATION: (Our Own Hymn Book no.187 v.3—Isaac Watts, 1709)
‘God is a King of power unknown;
Firm are the orders of His throne;
If He resolves, who dare oppose,
Or ask Him why, or what He does?’
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 295.
The claims of God
‘Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting: and his truth endureth to all generations.’ Psalm 100:3–5
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: 1 Samuel 15:10–31
If ever this driveling age of little men is to be lifted up into something like respectability and redeemed from the morass of falsehood in which it lies festering, we must breed a race of men who mean to serve God come what may, and to make no reckoning but this: ‘Is this right? It shall be done. Is this wrong? Then it shall cease.’ There must be no compromise, no talk about marring our usefulness and spoiling our position by being too exact.
Usefulness and position! Let them be marred and spoiled if truth comes in the way, for God is to be followed into the jungle and down the wild beasts’ throats and into the jaws of hell, if he leads the way. God must be the guide, and if we follow God it shall be well with us. But if we do not, that which man thinks easiest is after all the hardest. He thinks it easiest to be as near right as you can, but to run no risks; he thinks it best to keep peace at home, to yield many points, and not to be too puritanical and too precise. That is the easy way, the way which God abhors, and the way which will end in a festering conscience at last and in being shut out of heaven.
But the way to serve God is to be washed in the blood of Jesus, and then to obey the Lord without reserve and seek his honour only. This is the way to heaven, and when we reach those blissful seats we shall be all in tune with the perfected, for they serve the Lord day and night and find it bliss to do so. This preparation and service on earth is absolutely essential to the enjoyment of heaven above.
FOR MEDITATION: (Our Own Hymn Book no.187 v.3—Isaac Watts, 1709)
‘God is a King of power unknown;
Firm are the orders of His throne;
If He resolves, who dare oppose,
Or ask Him why, or what He does?’
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 295.
11 OCTOBER (1874)
The claims of God
‘Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting: and his truth endureth to all generations.’ Psalm 100:3–5
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: 1 Samuel 15:10–31
If ever this driveling age of little men is to be lifted up into something like respectability and redeemed from the morass of falsehood in which it lies festering, we must breed a race of men who mean to serve God come what may, and to make no reckoning but this: ‘Is this right? It shall be done. Is this wrong? Then it shall cease.’ There must be no compromise, no talk about marring our usefulness and spoiling our position by being too exact.
Usefulness and position! Let them be marred and spoiled if truth comes in the way, for God is to be followed into the jungle and down the wild beasts’ throats and into the jaws of hell, if he leads the way. God must be the guide, and if we follow God it shall be well with us. But if we do not, that which man thinks easiest is after all the hardest. He thinks it easiest to be as near right as you can, but to run no risks; he thinks it best to keep peace at home, to yield many points, and not to be too puritanical and too precise. That is the easy way, the way which God abhors, and the way which will end in a festering conscience at last and in being shut out of heaven.
But the way to serve God is to be washed in the blood of Jesus, and then to obey the Lord without reserve and seek his honour only. This is the way to heaven, and when we reach those blissful seats we shall be all in tune with the perfected, for they serve the Lord day and night and find it bliss to do so. This preparation and service on earth is absolutely essential to the enjoyment of heaven above.
FOR MEDITATION: (Our Own Hymn Book no.187 v.3—Isaac Watts, 1709)
‘God is a King of power unknown;
Firm are the orders of His throne;
If He resolves, who dare oppose,
Or ask Him why, or what He does?’
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 295.
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