Song of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, emphasizing his role in bridging the gap between humanity and God.
Charles Spurgeon's quote contemplates the profound sacrifice made by Jesus Christ, who suffered immensely on behalf of humanity. It highlights the theological significance of his suffering as a means to reconcile the unjust with God, offering a path to redemption and emphasizing the depth of divine love and justice intertwined in the act of sacrifice.
In practice
This quote can be used in a sermon about the nature of Christ's suffering and its relevance to our 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.
You are -- your life, and nothing else.
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.
There is no paradise, no place of true completion _x000D_ that does not include within its walls the unknown.
See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.
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