May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of personal and private communion with God as a source of peace and safety.
Charles Spurgeon highlights the value of establishing a deep, personal connection with God within the quietness of one's heart. This 'communion' suggests that in our most private moments, we can find refuge and sanctuary, reinforcing the idea that faith can provide comfort and security, particularly in tumultuous times.
In practice
In a sermon about finding solace during tough times.
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.
If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.
Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.
There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
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