If you think you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ, you have made a great mistake. If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of maintaining a close relationship with Jesus to achieve holiness.
Charles Spurgeon highlights that true holiness cannot be achieved in isolation from Christ. He implies that a continuous, intimate fellowship with Jesus is essential for a life of holiness, suggesting that without such a connection, one easily falters in their spiritual journey.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a church service to encourage believers to deepen their relationship with Jesus.
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.
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After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
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I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before I begin secret prayer. I feel it is far better to begin with God-to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another.
God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.
HEAVEN knows the difference between SUNDAY morning and WEDNESDAY afternoon. God longs to speak as CLEARLY in the workplace as He does in the sanctuary. He longs to be WORSHIPED when we sit at the dinner table and not just when we come to His communion table. You may go days without THINKING of Him, but there's never a moment when He's not thinking of YOU.
Precisely where I feel my poverty is where I discover God's blessing.
In order to form a habit of conversing with GOD continually, and referring all we do to Him, we must at first apply to Him with some diligence: but that after a little care we should find His love inwardly excite us to it without any difficulty.
Dear God, I give this time of quiet to You. Please dissolve my thoughts of stress and fear And deliver me to the inner place Where all is peace and love. Amen.
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