It is only serving God that is doing immortal work; it is only living for Christ that is living at all.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that true life and lasting impact come from serving God and living for Christ.
Charles Spurgeon's quote suggests that true fulfillment and significance in life are found through devotion to God and Christ. Serving God not only grants purpose but also creates an eternal legacy, implying that earthly pursuits are fleeting compared to the everlasting value of spiritual service.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a church sermon about the importance of living a life of service.
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.
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
Most things may never happen: this one will.
We have the same soul at 60 that we had at 40, and the same soul at 25 that we had when we were 5.
I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?"
Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.
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