What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that those who follow Jesus will find guidance and safety amidst difficulties.
Charles Spurgeon's quote emphasizes the assurance that, despite the challenges and setbacks others may face ('shipwreck'), those who commit their trust and journey to Jesus will not be abandoned or left to struggle alone. It reflects a profound sense of faith and security in spiritual guidance.
In practice
In a sermon about overcoming life's challenges, I would quote this to illustrate the importance of faith.
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 am writing to all the Churches and I enjoin all, that I am dying willingly for God's sake, if only you do not prevent it. I beg you, do not do me an untimely kindness. Allow me to be eaten by the beasts, which are my way of reaching to God. I am God's wheat, and I am to be ground by the teeth of wild beasts, so that I may become the pure bread of Christ.
I am grateful that early in my life I was blessed with a simple faith that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, that he saw God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, in a vision. He translated the Book of Mormon by the gift and power of God. That testimony has been confirmed to me over and over again.
...I don't have to worry about not meeting His expectations. God will ensure my success in accordance with His plan, not mine.
God's grace is at its best in weakness, so we need never fear our weakness. In fact, these weaknesses will determine in what way we shall glorify God for all eternity.
I'm not worried about tomorrow, because God is there already, waiting for me.
God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.
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