Sugar Loaf #22
In honor of "Panthers" everywhere
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Do not attempt to touch yourself up and make yourself something other than you really are, but come as you are to Him who justifies the ungodly. …The Gospel will receive you into its halls if you come as a sinner, not otherwise. Wait not for reformation, but come at once for salvation. God justifieth the ungodly, and that takes you up where you now are; it meets you in your worst estate. Come in your disorder. I mean, come to your heavenly Father in all your sin and sinfulness. Come to Jesus just as you are: filthy, naked, neither fit to live nor fit to die. Come, you that are the very sweepings of creation; come, though you hardly dare to hope for anything but death. Come, though despair is brooding over you, pressing upon your bosom like a horrible nightmare. Come and ask the Lord to justify another ungodly one. Spurgeon
Friday, November 16, 2012
overcoming enslaving habits with worship
If you are a Christian and you are dealing with
enslaving habits, it’s not enough to say, ‘Bad Christian, stop it.’ And it is
not enough to beat yourself up or merely try harder and harder and harder.
The real reason that you’re having a problem
with an enslaving habit is because you are not tasting God. I’m not
talking about believing God or even obeying God, I’m saying tasting
— tasting God.
The secret to freedom from enslaving patterns of
sin is worship. You need worship. You need great worship. You need weeping
worship. You need glorious worship. You need to sense God’s greatness and to be
moved by it — moved to tears and moved to laughter — moved by who God is and
what he has done for you. And this needs to be happening all the time.
This type of worship is the only thing that can
replace the little if only fire burning in your heart. We need a new
fire that says, ‘If only I saw the Lord. If only he was close to
my heart. If only I could feel him to be as great as I know him to be. If
only I could taste his grace as sweet as I know it to be.’
And when that if only fire is burning in
your heart, then you are free.
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