The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the concepts of repentance and humility in the Christian faith.
Charles Spurgeon's quote reflects the importance of repentance and self-awareness in Christian teaching. It suggests that true Christians often find themselves in a state of humility and reflection, recognizing their need for forgiveness and divine grace at the foot of the cross, which symbolizes the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. This posture is both a physical and spiritual acknowledgment of one's shortcomings and the path to redemption.
In practice
Use this quote in a sermon about the importance of humility in 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.
There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity.
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.
People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.
The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.
Whatsoever you can be you are. There is no goal. And we are not going anywhere. We are simply celebrating here. Existence is not a journey, it is a celebration. Think of it as a celebration, as a delight, as a joy! Don't turn it into a suffering, don't turn it into a duty, a work. Let it be play.
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