SERMON ILLUSTRATION FROM SPURGEON: Describes God’s transforming power.

Spurgeon was a master illustrator. You can use this illustration in your preaching to describe God’s transforming power.

 

When God puts his hand on a man, if he were worthless and useless before, he can make him very valuable. You know the price of an article does not depend so much upon the value of the raw material as upon workmanship put upon it. Here is very bad raw material to begin with—bruised reeds and smoking flax; but by Divine workmanship both these things become of wondrous value.