Song of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, emphasizing his role in bridging the gap between humanity and God.
Charles Spurgeon's quote contemplates the profound sacrifice made by Jesus Christ, who suffered immensely on behalf of humanity. It highlights the theological significance of his suffering as a means to reconcile the unjust with God, offering a path to redemption and emphasizing the depth of divine love and justice intertwined in the act of sacrifice.
In practice
This quote can be used in a sermon about the nature of Christ's suffering and its relevance to our faith.
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 am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.
Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
We have to see that the human person needs the infinite. If God's not there, if the infinite isn't available, the human person creates its own paradises, giving the appearance of 'infinitude' that can only be a lie.
Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.
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