If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of heeding teachings, especially those that challenge or discomfort us.
Charles Spurgeon suggests that the most challenging teachings or verses in the Bible are the ones we should pay the most attention to. Instead of ignoring or dismissing difficult lessons, he encourages us to confront them and allow their teachings to significantly impact our lives, much like a blister that forces us to acknowledge its presence until we address the underlying issue.
In practice
In a sermon about overcoming personal challenges, you might use this quote to encourage congregation members to face their struggles.
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.
The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.
The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.
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