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.
All the things you're not supposed to do at the beginning of your professional life - transgressiveness, arbitrariness and violating expectations - you find more attractive at the end of your professional life.
As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We're almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it's inviting disaster.
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self.
Meditation _x000D_ practice begins by sitting down and assuming your seat cross-legged on _x000D_ the ground. You begin to feel that by simply being on the spot, your _x000D_ life can become workable and even wonderful. You realize that you are _x000D_ capable of sitting like a king or queen on a throne. The regalness of _x000D_ that situation shows you the... dignity that comes from being still and _x000D_ simple.
I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
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