"Far too much of our praying and of our worship is like closed-up boxes; you cannot tell what is in them. But it is not so with broken hearts; when broken hearts sing, they do sing. When broken hearts groan, they do groan. Broken hearts never play at repenting nor play at believing. There is much of religion nowadays that is very superficial; it is all on the surface; a very small quantity of gospel paint, with just a little varnish of profession, will go a very long way and look very bright. But broken hearts are not like that; with broken hearts, the hymn is a real hymn, the prayer is a real prayer, the hearing of the sermon is earnest work, and the preaching of them is the hardest work of all. Oh, what a mercy it would be if some of you were broken all to pieces! Oh, to worship God in Spirit and truth! One has well said, "No one ever worshiped God with his whole heart unless he worshiped Him with a broken heart; and there never was a heart that was truly broken that did not thereby become a whole heart."" -Charles Haddon Spurgeon, (June 19, 1834 – January 31, 1892)
And now I'm off for a short, and hopefully, sweet vacation with my wife to St. Michaels on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. So, TTFN.
4 comments:
My guess is that you and your wife's hearts have already been yielded and broken before the Lord. May both of you have wholeness and fulfillment on your special time away.
Thank you my friend.
Have a special time of renewal on your vacation, I will be waiting for new, very thought provoking messages!
Thanks for the encouragement sister. Have a blessed Lord's Day.
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