I have been reading Charles Spurgeon's Morning and Evening. This is something from it. I think it is very interesting. I think perhaps it gives one understanding who has frustration of apathy of ones around them who say they are Christians. I think it applies greatly to the coorprate church game clique of today sometimes. It is very straight forward and intense. I think it is cool. just though I'd post it
“Knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end?”
— 2 Samuel 2:26
If, O my reader! thou art merely a professor, and not a possessor of the faith that is in Christ Jesus, the following lines are a true ketch of thine end.
You are a respectable attendant at a place of worship; you go because others go, not because your heart is right with God. This is your beginning. I will suppose that for the next twenty or thirty years you will be spared to go on as you do now, professing religion by an outward attendance upon the means of grace, but having no heart in the matter. Tread softly, for I must show you the deathbed of such a one as yourself. Let us gaze upon him gently. A clammy sweat is on his brow, and he wakes up crying, “O God, it is hard to die. Did you send for my minister?” “Yes, he is coming.” The minister comes. “Sir, I fear that I am dying!” “Have you any hope?” “I cannot say that I have. I fear to stand before my God; oh! pray for me.” The prayer is offered for him with sincere earnestness, and the way of salvation is for the ten-thousandth time put before him, but before he has grasped the rope, I see him sink. I may put my finger upon those cold eyelids, for they will never see anything here again. But where is the man, and where are the man’s true eyes? It is written, “In hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torment.” Ah! why did he not lift up his eyes before? Because he was so accustomed to hear the gospel that his soul slept under it. Alas! if you should lift up your eyes there, how bitter will be your wailings. Let the Saviour’s own words reveal the woe: “Father Abraham, send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame.” There is a frightful meaning in those words. May you never have to spell it out by the red light of Jehovah’s wrath!
Spurgeon, Charles H.: Morning and Evening : Daily Readings. Complete and unabridged; New modern edition. Peabody, MA : Hendrickson Publishers, 2006, S. December 30 PM
This is a note a made attatched to this article in my Bible software.
The actions are there, but the heart never cared. Somehow grew tired of the gosple. Doesn't realize the real FREEDOM of this. Oh God! that we never grow tired of the gosple. WE ARE FREE!!! Oh God! kill the apathy.
I am He who searches mind and heart. What are the motives in the practice? The motive is just as important, if not more, than the practice, tradition, or ordiannce.
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I agree. Sometimes I ask my friends why they believe in God/go to church/are Christians, and they don't know and it makes me sad. And like, sometimes it's hard to even get around to talking about Jesus because as they've grown up in church, they either think they know all there is or have become calloused to it. Or they just don't care.
That was a cool exerpt to pull out. You always read these really cool books. And I admire your desire to see true love in God and not just empty action. :D
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