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.
Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.
We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.
Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family.
The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.
I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?
The end of the First World War had thrown Germany's youth into great turmoil. The reins of power had fallen from the hands of a deeply disillusioned older generation, and the younger ones drew together in larger and smaller groups to blaze new paths or, at least, to discover a new star to steer by.
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