It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-- "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory."
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of attributing glory to God rather than seeking it for ourselves.
In this quote, Charles Spurgeon reflects on a fundamental struggle within the Christian faith, which is to prioritize God's glory above our own desires or recognition. He highlights the challenge of humility and selflessness, urging believers to acknowledge that all honor and praise should ultimately be directed towards God, not themselves, acknowledging a higher purpose in the Christian journey.
In practice
This quote can be used in a sermon to remind churchgoers of the importance of glorifying God.
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.
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
I guess my overall life plan is to think about issues that concern me and try to use culture generally to make sense of them. I'm more worried that I'm going to die before I've had time.
Wherever we go, wherever we remain, the results of our actions follow us.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.
So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.
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