A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that individuals should embody joy and gratitude as expressions of their faith.
Charles Spurgeon highlights the importance of living out one's faith through joy and gratitude. He suggests that being a 'child of God' entails radiating happiness and embodying a spirit of thanksgiving, making one's life a testament of worship and reverence.
In practice
During a church service, this quote can inspire congregants to be joyful and thankful.
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.
Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away and pray." Pray now - draw on the grace of God in your moment of need. Prayer is the most normal and useful thing; it is not simply a reflex action of your devotion to God. We are very slow to learn to draw on God's grace through prayer.
It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all around us, is always embracing us.
[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.
Before we go to our knees to receive the Baptism of Fire, let me beg of you to see to it that your souls are in harmony with the will and purpose of the Holy Spirit whom you seek.
Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.
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