You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart, and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart.
Interpretation
Prioritize spiritual wealth over material possessions, allowing faith to guide your heart.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon emphasizes the importance of placing spiritual values above earthly possessions. By suggesting that Christ should be the ultimate treasure in one's life, it encourages individuals to focus on their faith and inner devotion rather than getting lost in the pursuit of material wealth and earthly distractions.
In practice
In a sermon on prioritizing faith in difficult 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.
A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory.
With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.
All over this nation, all over this world there are people going to church today and they say they are believers, but until you can take what you've been taught and bring it to the place you gave up - you will never be the radical believer that you need to be for the times in which we live.
Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.
Even when things are getting worse instead of better - I believe God!
There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.
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