Tuesday, October 9, 2018

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