The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the concepts of repentance and humility in the Christian faith.
Charles Spurgeon's quote reflects the importance of repentance and self-awareness in Christian teaching. It suggests that true Christians often find themselves in a state of humility and reflection, recognizing their need for forgiveness and divine grace at the foot of the cross, which symbolizes the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. This posture is both a physical and spiritual acknowledgment of one's shortcomings and the path to redemption.
In practice
Use this quote in a sermon about the importance of humility in 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.
The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.
Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.
For a long time we have thought we were better than the living world, and now some of us tend to think we are worse, that everything we touch turns to soot. But neither perspective is healthy. We have to remember how it feels to have equal standing in the world, to be "between the mountain and the ant . . . part and parcel of creations," as the Iroquois traditionalist Oren Lyons says.
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