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Joy in Christ's Presence
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon54 ratings, 4.54 average rating, 13 reviews
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“Personally, I am resolved to follow no human leader. Faith in Jesus creates a sacred independence of mind. We have learned such an entire dependence upon our crucified Lord that we have none to spare for men.”
― Joy in Christ's Presence
― Joy in Christ's Presence
“You may have said of yourself, 'Alas, I feel very dull; my spirituality is at a very low ebb. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Most likely I will have no holy joy today!' Why not? The touch of Jesus could make you live if you were dead, and surely it will stir the little life that is in you, though it may seem to you that it is dying!
Struggle hard, my friend, to get at Jesus! May the eternal Spirit come and help you, and may you yet find that your dull, dead times can soon become your best times. Oh, what a blessing it is that God 'lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill' (1 Sam. 2:8)! He does not raise us when He sees that we are already up. Instead, when He finds us lying low, then He delights to lift us up and set us among princes (v. 8). In a single moment, you may mount up from the depths of heaviness to the very heights of ecstatic worship, if you can only touch Christ crucified. View Him there, with streaming wounds, with thorn-crowned head, as He dies for you in all the majesty of His misery!”
― Joy in Christ's Presence
Struggle hard, my friend, to get at Jesus! May the eternal Spirit come and help you, and may you yet find that your dull, dead times can soon become your best times. Oh, what a blessing it is that God 'lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill' (1 Sam. 2:8)! He does not raise us when He sees that we are already up. Instead, when He finds us lying low, then He delights to lift us up and set us among princes (v. 8). In a single moment, you may mount up from the depths of heaviness to the very heights of ecstatic worship, if you can only touch Christ crucified. View Him there, with streaming wounds, with thorn-crowned head, as He dies for you in all the majesty of His misery!”
― Joy in Christ's Presence
“We often talk about our great spiritual storms. Why should we not speak about our great spiritual calms? If ever we get into trouble, how we complain about it! Why should we not sing of our deliverances?”
― Joy in Christ's Presence
― Joy in Christ's Presence
“We make our sorrows great under the vain idea that they are too small for the Lord to notice.”
― Joy in Christ's Presence
― Joy in Christ's Presence
“There was never a problem so difficult to solve as that which has been answered in redemption. The tremendous difficulty was in this: How can He fulfill His declarations against evil and yet forgive sin? If that problem had been left to angels and men, they could never have worked it out throughout eternity. But God has solved it by freely delivering up His own Son.”
― Joy in Christ's Presence
― Joy in Christ's Presence
“Oh, the mercy that comes with utter self-despair! I love to see a soul driven into a tight corner and forced to look to God alone. The end of the creature is the beginning of the Creator. Where the sinner ends, the Savior begins.”
― Joy in Christ's Presence
― Joy in Christ's Presence
“I do not know a more delightful state of mind than that of feeling overshadowed by our beloved Lord. I was black with sin, but His precious blood overshadowed my sin and hid it forever. My natural condition was that of an enemy to God, but He who reconciled me to God by His blood has overshadowed that also, so that I now forget that I was once an enemy in my joy of being a friend.
I am very weak, but He is strong, and His strength overshadows my feebleness. I am very poor, but He has all the riches of the universe, and His riches overshadow my poverty. I am most unworthy, but He is so worthy that if I use His name I will receive as much as if I were worthy. Indeed, His worthiness overshadows my unworthiness.
It is very precious to put this truth another way and say, 'If there is anything good in me, it is not good when I compare myself with Him, for His goodness quite eclipses and overshadows it.' Can I say I love Him? I do, but I hardly dare to call it love, for His love overshadows it. Do I think that I serve Him? I want to, but my poor service is not worth mentioning in comparison with what He has done for me. Have I thought that I had any degree of holiness? I must not deny what His Spirit works in me, but when I think of His immaculate life and all His divine perfections, where am I? What am I?
Have you not sometimes felt this? Have you not been so overshadowed by your Lord and hidden in Him that you became as nothing? I myself know what it is to feel that if I die in a poorhouse, it does not matter, as long as my Lord is glorified. Mortals may slander me (Luke 6:22), if they like, but what difference does it make, since His dear name will one day be written in stars across the sky? Let Him overshadow me; I delight that it should be so.”
― Joy in Christ's Presence
I am very weak, but He is strong, and His strength overshadows my feebleness. I am very poor, but He has all the riches of the universe, and His riches overshadow my poverty. I am most unworthy, but He is so worthy that if I use His name I will receive as much as if I were worthy. Indeed, His worthiness overshadows my unworthiness.
It is very precious to put this truth another way and say, 'If there is anything good in me, it is not good when I compare myself with Him, for His goodness quite eclipses and overshadows it.' Can I say I love Him? I do, but I hardly dare to call it love, for His love overshadows it. Do I think that I serve Him? I want to, but my poor service is not worth mentioning in comparison with what He has done for me. Have I thought that I had any degree of holiness? I must not deny what His Spirit works in me, but when I think of His immaculate life and all His divine perfections, where am I? What am I?
Have you not sometimes felt this? Have you not been so overshadowed by your Lord and hidden in Him that you became as nothing? I myself know what it is to feel that if I die in a poorhouse, it does not matter, as long as my Lord is glorified. Mortals may slander me (Luke 6:22), if they like, but what difference does it make, since His dear name will one day be written in stars across the sky? Let Him overshadow me; I delight that it should be so.”
― Joy in Christ's Presence
“No sinner was ever half so eager for Christ as Christ is eager for the sinner; no saint was ever one-tenth as anxious to behold his Lord as his Lord is to behold him. If you are running to Christ, He is already near you. If you sigh for His presence, that sigh is the evidence that He is with you. He is with you even now; therefore, be glad.
Go forth, beloved, and talk with Jesus on the beach, for He often walked along the seashore. Commune with Him amid the olive groves, which were so dear to Him in many a night of wrestling prayer. Have your heart right with Him, and He will visit you often. Soon enough, you will walk every day with God, as Enoch did, and so turn weekdays into Sabbaths, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven. May it be so with all believers! Amen.”
― Joy in Christ's Presence
Go forth, beloved, and talk with Jesus on the beach, for He often walked along the seashore. Commune with Him amid the olive groves, which were so dear to Him in many a night of wrestling prayer. Have your heart right with Him, and He will visit you often. Soon enough, you will walk every day with God, as Enoch did, and so turn weekdays into Sabbaths, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven. May it be so with all believers! Amen.”
― Joy in Christ's Presence