Spurgeon on when You are Not Safe

Remove far from me vanity and lies.
Proverbs 30:8

“O my God, be not far from me.” Psalm 38:21.

Here we have two great lessons — what to deprecate and what to supplicate.

*The happiest state of a Christian is the holiest state.

*As there is the most heat nearest to the sun, so there is the most happiness nearest to Christ.

 

No Christian enjoys comfort when his eyes are fixed on vanity

— I do not blame ungodly men for rushing to their pleasures. Why should I? Let them have their fill. That is all they have to enjoy.

 

Christians must seek their delights in a higher sphere than the insipid frivolities or sinful enjoyments of the world. 

 

No Christian is safe

*when his soul is slothful,

*and his God is far from him....

.... he who slips as he goes down into the Valley of Humiliation, every time he takes a false step invites Apollyon to assail him. O for grace to walk humbly with our God!"

Charles Spurgeon