SERMON ILLUSTRATION FROM SPURGEON to describe bringing your cares to God.

Spurgeon was a master illustrator. You can use this illustration in your preaching to describe bringing your cares to God.

 

A little child was at play in a lower room, and as he played away by himself, amusing himself, about every ten minutes he ran to the foot of the stairs and called out, “Mother, are you there?”

 

His mother answered, “Yes, I am here,” and the little boy went back to his sport and fun and was as happy as happy could be, and until again it crossed his mind that his mother might have gone.

 

So he ran to the stairs again and called, “Mother, are you there?”

 

“All right,” she said, and as soon as he heard her voice again, back he went once more to his play.

 

It is just so with us. In times of temporal trouble, we go to the mercy seat in prayer, and we say, “Father, are you there? Is it your hand that is troubling me? Is it your providence that has sent me this difficulty?”

 

And as soon as you hear the voice that says, “It is I,” you are no longer afraid. Happy are they who, when they are afraid in this way, trust in the Lord.