Now let us find solace in the finished work of our Lord Jesus. Everything is fully done: justice demands no more.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the completeness of Jesus' work and the fulfillment of justice through it.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon reflects the Christian belief that the work of Jesus Christ on the cross was a complete and perfect sacrifice that satisfied divine justice. It suggests that believers can find peace in knowing that nothing more is required for forgiveness and reconciliation with God, as all has been accomplished through Christ's sacrifice.
In practice
A comforting message during a church service.
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 went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.
True liberty consists not merely in being free from something, but also in being free for something.
There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.
Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.
I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.
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