Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.
Interpretation
This quote expresses a desire for divine guidance and control over one's entire being in order to live a life of obedience to God.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon implores for the sanctification of individuals, seeking a profound spiritual transformation that aligns every aspect of human nature with God's will. He emphasizes the importance of allowing the divine Spirit to influence thoughts, emotions, and actions, so that one's life can be fully dedicated to serving and obeying God. This reflects the deep belief in the necessity of divine assistance in the moral and spiritual growth of an individual.
In practice
During a church service to inspire the congregation to seek spiritual growth.
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.
I'm not proposing that you let the crowd dictate, or that you work hard to fit in. Far from it. I'm proposing that you know the impact your choices are having and act accordingly.
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.
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