We know that many people just don’t want to hear the truth about what it really means to follow Christ … the real “counting of the cost.” While our reward does comes later, and yes, there is much joy now … our “itching ears” love the “prosperity message” without realizing the earthly fate of the early followers- the Apostles, etc. Our Pastor has really been preaching this lately, and we are glad to see this quote, confirming the truth of what really should be ahead for those who give their all to the pursuit of Christ.
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Great quote from CH Spurgeon.
Charles Spurgeon (C.H. Spurgeon) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
God doesn’t love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
Consciousness of self-importance is a hateful delusion, but one into which we fall as naturally as weeds grow on a dunghill. We cannot be used of the Lord without it leading to dreaming of personal greatness, thinking ourselves almost indispensable to the church, pillars of the cause, and foundations of the temple of God.
We are nothing and nobodies, but that we do not think so is very evident, for as soon as we are put on the shelf we begin anxiously to enquire, ‘How will the work go on without me?’ As well might the fly on the coach wheel enquire, ‘How will the mails be carried without me?’
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This is an interesting quote from Herman Melville. I especially find this interesting, as I have had the privilege to stand in the pulpit within “The Seaman’s Chapel” in New Bedford, MA.
Blessings, Ted
English: The grave of Herman Melville in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The pulpit is ever this earth’s foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is that the storm of God’s quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt. From thence it is that the God of breezes fair or foul is first invoked for favorable winds. Yes, the world’s a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow. — Herman Melville
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