Getting up

This entry consists of a quote by Spurgeon, pertaining to someone who never trusts in the Lord due to being shackled to their own problems, realizing their sin and wallowing in it, never forsaking it.

I've found this to apply to the Body of Christ. We're prone to do it, even to the point of entertaining ourselves.

The more I write these type of entries the more I realize people don't want to be preached to, some don't want to be preached to except by their pastor. I don't want to be preached to unless it's controlled, my gut reaction is to hate rebuke. And confessionals for that matter.

Why do we have to grope around for a like mind among other professing Christians, where are we going with our lives? This wasn't my main point so on with the Spurgeon.

"It is one trick of the devil to tempt a man to be satisfied with a sense of sin; and another trick of the same deceiver to insinuate that the sinner may not be content to trust Christ, unless he can bring a certain measure of despair to add to the Savior's finished work. Our awakenings are not to help the Savior, but to help us to the Savior. To imagine that my feeling of sin is to assist in the removal of the sin is absurd. It is as though I said that water could not cleanse my face unless I had looked longer in the glass, and had counted the smuts upon my forehead. A sense of need of salvation by grace is a very healthful sign; but one needs wisdom to use it aright, and not to make an idol of it."