To think that before the hills were formed, or the channels of the sea were scooped out, God loved me; that from everlasting to everlasting His mercy is upon His people. Is not that a consolation?
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the eternal nature of God's love and mercy towards humanity, providing comfort in the face of existence.
Charles Spurgeon emphasizes the idea that before the creation of the world—the hills and seas—God's love and mercy were already in place. This notion suggests a timeless and unwavering support for humanity, offering profound consolation and reassurance to individuals facing the challenges of life.
In practice
During a church service, a pastor might use this quote to illustrate the depth of God's love.
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.
Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it
At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate.
A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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