We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the alignment of believers' thoughts and values with those of Christ.
Charles Spurgeon expresses the profound connection between believers and Christ, suggesting that through sanctification, their thoughts and purposes align with His. This communion reflects a shared perspective, where believers are moved by what pleases or grieves Christ, illustrating a deep spiritual relationship characterized by mutual understanding and agreement.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a church sermon to encourage believers to align their thoughts with Christ.
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.
What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.
I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence.
Once established, reputations do not easily change.
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side
You are awareness, disguised as a person.
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