"[...] Have I been
making a fair show in the flesh without having a corresponding inner
life? Good growth takes place upwards and downwards at the same time.
Am I rooted in sincere fidelity and love to Jesus? If my heart remains
unsoftened and unfertilized by grace, the good seed may germinate
for a season, but it must ultimately wither, for it cannot flourish
on a rocky, unbroken, unsanctified heart. Let me dread a godliness
as rapid in growth and as wanting in endurance as Jonah’s gourd; let me count the cost of being a follower of Jesus, above
all let me feel the energy of his Holy Spirit, and then I shall possess
an abiding and enduring seed in my soul. If my mind remains as obdurate
as it was by nature, the sun of trial will scorch, and my hard heart
will help to cast the heat the more terribly upon the ill-covered
seed, and my religion will soon die, and my despair will be terrible;
therefore, O heavenly Sower, plough me first, and then cast the truth
into me, and let me yield thee a bounteous harvest"
- Charles H. Spurgeon, Morning devotion, January 11th
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