A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that individuals should embody joy and gratitude as expressions of their faith.
Charles Spurgeon highlights the importance of living out one's faith through joy and gratitude. He suggests that being a 'child of God' entails radiating happiness and embodying a spirit of thanksgiving, making one's life a testament of worship and reverence.
In practice
During a church service, this quote can inspire congregants to be joyful and thankful.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
To predispose our mind to welcome the Lord who, as we say in the Creed, one day will come to judge the living and the dead, we must learn to recognize him as present in the events of daily life. Therefore, Advent is, so to speak, an intense training that directs us decisively toward him who already came, who will come, and who comes continuously.
I try to remind myself not to go anywhere or do anything without asking for spiritual direction through prayer and meditation.
Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.
The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.
We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception of God and from that derive great joy in being his. We should put life in our faith. We should give ourselves utterly to God in pure abandonment, in temporal and spiritual matters alike, and find contentment in the doing of His will,whether he takes us through sufferings or consolations.
There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.
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