Spurgeon was a master illustrator. You can use this illustration in your own preaching to describe not being at home in this world.
Sometimes, when our friends go to Liverpool to sail for Canada or any other distant region, on the night before they sail they get into a very poor lodging. I think I hear one of them grumbling, “What a hard bed! What a small room! What a bad view!”
“Never mind,” says the other, “we are not going to live here. We are off tomorrow.”
Think in like manner, you children of poverty; this is not your rest. Put up with it, you are away tomorrow.
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