You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart, and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart.
Interpretation
Prioritize spiritual wealth over material possessions, allowing faith to guide your heart.
This quote by Charles Spurgeon emphasizes the importance of placing spiritual values above earthly possessions. By suggesting that Christ should be the ultimate treasure in one's life, it encourages individuals to focus on their faith and inner devotion rather than getting lost in the pursuit of material wealth and earthly distractions.
In practice
In a sermon on prioritizing faith in difficult times.
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.
I wish for each of you a time, perhaps only an hour, spent in silent meditation and quiet reflection on the wonder and the majesty of this, the Son of God. Our joy at this season is because He came into the world.
The "door of faith" (Acts 14:27) is always open for us, ushering us into the life of communion with God and offering entry into his Church. It is possible to cross that threshold when the word of God is proclaimed and the heart allows itself to be shaped by transforming grace. To enter through that door is to set out on a journey that lasts a lifetime.
God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.
God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.
Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.
I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God's hands, to trust in Jesus who - while I wrote my book on him - I felt bound to by an old and more profound friendship.
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