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.
And with the grace of Baptism and of Eucharistic Communion I can become an instrument of God's mercy, of that beautiful mercy of God.
Prayer, as a means of drawing ever new strength from Christ, is concretely and urgently needed.
To talk with God, no breath is lost. Talk on! To walk with God, no strength is lost. Walk on! To wait on God, no time is lost. Wait on!
Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.
Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.
Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.
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