Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.
Interpretation
This quote expresses a desire for divine guidance and control over one's entire being in order to live a life of obedience to God.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon implores for the sanctification of individuals, seeking a profound spiritual transformation that aligns every aspect of human nature with God's will. He emphasizes the importance of allowing the divine Spirit to influence thoughts, emotions, and actions, so that one's life can be fully dedicated to serving and obeying God. This reflects the deep belief in the necessity of divine assistance in the moral and spiritual growth of an individual.
In practice
During a church service to inspire the congregation to seek spiritual growth.
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.
Violence in any form is a tragic expression of our unmet needs.
"My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between."
I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.
Let fools the studious despise,_x000D_ _x000D_ There's nothing lost by being wise.
I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.
Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.
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