Thoughts upon thoughts

If u ask me what is wrong with our youths, I won't hesitate to say something is, but I can't point out exactly what. But when I think of the youths, I know there are some whom the Lord is stirring. However, may I be unsatisfied with this trickling flow of revival and beg for the heavens to open so that God will pour out His Spirit in the last days again as promised and cause us all to be ablaze with His glory?

This is an excerpt from the brilliant book "The Forgotten Spurgeon". When I read this portion, it striked a chord in my heart. I hope it will do the same for you. God Bless You!

I pray that at this coming retreat, there will be people who will stop seeing the glory of God, if that glory doesn't cause them to see their need to be transformed from the inside out. Where then is the power of God to salvation if the heart is not changed by the glory of Christ? A heart that leaves room for sin has no room for the Holy Spirit. When the glory of God shines into our hearts, it illuminates our inner most darkness. That which is hidden will be brought to light, but not many will see it because that road is narrow and few will enter through it. I hope and I pray that you are not one of them.

In 1891, the last year of [Spurgeon's] life, there was [a] sermon from the Book of Daniel, this time on the resolution of Daniel's three companions who were thrown into the firey furnance for their refusal to submit to Nebuchadnezzar. In the first division of the sermon he lists the kind of excuses the three men might have used to justifu a compliance which would have kept them out of the furnance. They might have said, 'We can do more good by living,' dying would çut short our opportunities of usefulness.' Upon which Spurgeon enlarges:

'Ah, my dear breathern! There are many that are deceived by this method of reasoning. They remain where their conscience tells them they ought not to be, because, they say, they are more useful than they would be if they went "without the camp". This is doing evil that good may come, and can never be tolerated by an enlightened conscience. If an act of sin would increase my usefulness tenfold, I have no right to do it; and if an act of righteousness would appear likely to destroy all my apparent usefulness, I am yet to do it. It is yours and mine to do the right though the heavens fall, and follow the command of Christ whatever the consequnces may be. "That is strong meat," do you say? Be strong men, then, and feed thereon...

For right is right, since God is God
And right the day must win;
To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sin.'