The FaithFul of God
“Strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man.” Ephesians 3:16 Chapter 6. The Penitence and Prayer of the Spiritual Life The Broken and Contrite Heart “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.” Psalm 51:17. It has been the lowly but […]
You must light your torch of affection for Christ, at the altar of Calvary. You must go there, and learn and believe what the love of Jesus is to you: the vastness of that love; the self sacrifice of that love; how that love of Christ labored and wept, bled, suffered, and died for you! […]
“My soul cleaves unto the dust: quicken me according to your word.” Psalm 119:25 We have more than once in this work adverted to the indestructible nature of true grace—the deathlessness of God’s life in man’s soul. But we may associate with this truth another idea. Not only cannot the spiritual life be destroyed, but […]
“Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity” There are diverse kinds of vanity. The cap and bells of the fool, the mirth of the world, the dance, the lyre, and the cup of the dissolute; all these men know to be vanities; they wear upon their forefront their proper name and title. Far more treacherous […]
Afflictions are preparing for us a “more abundant entrance,” a weightier crown, a whiter robe, a sweeter rest, a home made doubly precious by a long exile and many sufferings here below. However desperate our earthly warfare may be, it is not forever. No, it is brief, very brief. Its end is near, very near. […]
“A soul that is altogether given up to the love of Christ lives above care and sorrow. It has care and sorrow, but the love of Christ kills all the bitterness by its inexpressible sweetness!” Spurgeon “Better go to heaven alone than to hell with a herd.” (Spurgeon) “I have many people in this city.” […]
The Unsavory Salt Matthew 5:13, “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.” The more deeply the subject now engaging our attention—the spiritual life, its decay […]
Microscopic holiness The following is from Spurgeon’s sermon, “A Well Ordered Life” . Psalm 119:133. “Order my steps,” We see here that David is anxious as to details. He does not say, “Order the whole of my pilgrimage;” he means that, but his expression is more expressive and painstaking. He would have each single step […]
The Spiritual Life Contrasted with its Counterfeit Wells Without Water “These are wells without water.” 2 Peter 2:17 It is one of the ever-working schemes and master strokes of the prince of darkness, and too successful is his exploit, to annihilate in the view of man the essential difference which God’s holy word draws between […]
The plan Satan seems to have adopted is that of preventing, as far as he can, our raising in our midst a race of eminent and advanced Christians. We have in this age but few giants in grace who rise head and shoulders above the common height, men to lead us on in deeds of […]
Jesus’ crucifixion was but the closing scene of a whole life of crucifixion! He was a cross bearer from the hour that He was laid in the manger. All His days He bore the cross. His life was but a pilgrimage to Calvary with the cross upon His shoulders. His whole course on earth was […]
“Strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man.” Ephesians 3:16 Chapter 2 The Spiritual Life in its Gradual and Imperceptible Relapse Gray Hairs! “Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knows it not; yes, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knows it not.” Hosea 7:9 Such is the graphic […]
There is all sorts of room for error in the matter of Christians being led. We are persuaded that very often the devil gets people to do the wrong thing, by giving them the impression that they are being led “by the Spirit.” Let us note some examples: Cases where people have killed because “God […]
1 Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? 2 She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths. 3 She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. 4 Unto you, O men, I call; […]
Chapter 1. The Nature and Manifestations of the Spiritual Life “I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me.” Galatians 2:20 It is impossible for a truly spiritual mind to resist the conviction, or close the eye to the fact, that inward vital godliness by no means keeps pace with the profession of Christianity […]