Spurgeon was a master illustrator. You can use this illustration in your preaching to describe the quiet nature of the Christian life.
If there is only one waterfall in a river, only one in a thousand miles, everybody hears about it and it is marked on the map.
But if another river should flow on smoothly, it would not cause such a noise as that one cataract would make.
In like manner, a holy life is not talked of by an ungodly world half as much as one unholy act of an inconsistent professing Christian. How they delight to speak of that! How they roll the story of the sins of God’s people under their tongues as sweet morsels! You may repent of your backsliding; you may become even more zealous afterward, as you should do. But, my dear brothers, after having once stained your reputation, it is not easy to wipe out the blot.
“I am not afraid to preach to you justification by faith alone! Look to Jesus and live!” — Charles Spurgeon |
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