SERMON ILLUSTRATION BY SPURGEON: describe God's love for sinners

Spurgeon was a master illustrator. You can use this illustration in your own preaching to describe God's love for sinners.

The principle of division of labor is a very admirable one for the production of results on a large scale, but it is a miserable business for the workman to have to do the same thing over and over again, all day long, as if he were an automaton. Get a man at work on a statue—an artist whose whole soul is in his chisel, who knows that there is a bright spirit within that block of marble, and who means to chip off all that hides the lovely image from his sight. See how he works! No man does a thing well who does it sorrowfully.

The best work that can be is done by the happy, joyful workman, and so it is with Christ. He does not save souls out of necessity—as though he would rather do something else if he might. But his very heart is in it, he rejoices to do it, and therefore he does it thoroughly, and he communicates his joy to us in the doing of it.