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godmoves: Sorrow teaches us to resist trite views of what maturity in Jesus looks like. ‎Faith is not frownless. Maturity is not painless. It is the presence of Jesus and not the absence of happiness that designates the situation and provides our hope. Spurgeon says it this way, “Depression of spirit is no index of declining grace. The very loss of joy and the absence of assurance may be accompanied by the greatest advancement in the spiritual life…We do not want rain all the days of the week and all the weeks of the year, but if the rain comes sometimes, it makes the fields fertile and the streams flow.” Sorrow exposes and roots out our pride. Perhaps we can think of it this way. When standing in a garage sale, the saying goes, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” We often mix up what is trash and treasure to Jesus. Sorrow helps show us where we’ve been passing over treasures for trash. “We are very apt to grow too big,” Spurgeon says. “It is a good thing for us to be taken down a notch or two. We sometimes rise too high in our own estimation. Unless the Lord took away some of our joy, we should be utterly destroyed by pride.” Sorrow pushes us to take an honest second look at ourselves and our situations. Sorrow unthreads the hem of our rationalizations. Spurgeon continues, “When this downcasting comes, it gets us to work at self-examination…When your house has been made to shake, it has caused you to see whether it was founded upon a rock.” Sorrow is a means of drawing us closer to Jesus in truer dependance. Jesus stays put, though everything else may fall around us. Strength emerges. Surgeon says it this way, “When we were little boys and were out at evening, we would walk with our father. Sometimes we would run on a long way ahead, but every now and then, there would be a big dog loose on the road, and it is astonishing how closely we clung to our father then.” Sorrow teaches us empathy for one another. Spurgeon says, “If we had never been in troubles ourselves, we should be very poor comforters of others…It would be no disadvantage to a surgeon if he once knew what it was to have a broken bone. You may depend upon his touch being more tender afterwords; he would not be so rough with his patients as he might have been if he had never felt such pain himself.” Jesus shows us his wounds, the slanders, the manipulations, the injustices, the body blows, the mistreatments piled onto him. From there he loves, still (Romans 5:8). He invites us into fellowship with his empathy. We receive it form him in depth. Truly, we rise again and actually give, maybe for the first time in our lives.” By: Charles Spurgeon Put together by: Zack Eswine

godmoves:

Sorrow teaches us to resist trite views of what maturity in Jesus looks like.
‎Faith is not frownless. Maturity is not painless. It is the presence of Jesus and not the absence of happiness that designates the situation and provides our hope. Spurgeon says it this way, “Depression of spirit is no index of declining grace. The very loss of joy and the absence of assurance may be accompanied by the greatest advancement in the spiritual life…We do not want rain all the days of the week and all the weeks of the year, but if the rain comes sometimes, it makes the fields fertile and the streams flow.”

Sorrow exposes and roots out our pride.
Perhaps we can think of it this way. When standing in a garage sale, the saying goes, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” We often mix up what is trash and treasure to Jesus. Sorrow helps show us where we’ve been passing over treasures for trash. “We are very apt to grow too big,” Spurgeon says. “It is a good thing for us to be taken down a notch or two. We sometimes rise too high in our own estimation. Unless the Lord took away some of our joy, we should be utterly destroyed by pride.”

Sorrow pushes us to take an honest second look at ourselves and our situations.
Sorrow unthreads the hem of our rationalizations. Spurgeon continues, “When this downcasting comes, it gets us to work at self-examination…When your house has been made to shake, it has caused you to see whether it was founded upon a rock.”

Sorrow is a means of drawing us closer to Jesus in truer dependance.
Jesus stays put, though everything else may fall around us. Strength emerges. Surgeon says it this way, “When we were little boys and were out at evening, we would walk with our father. Sometimes we would run on a long way ahead, but every now and then, there would be a big dog loose on the road, and it is astonishing how closely we clung to our father then.”

Sorrow teaches us empathy for one another.
Spurgeon says, “If we had never been in troubles ourselves, we should be very poor comforters of others…It would be no disadvantage to a surgeon if he once knew what it was to have a broken bone. You may depend upon his touch being more tender afterwords; he would not be so rough with his patients as he might have been if he had never felt such pain himself.” Jesus shows us his wounds, the slanders, the manipulations, the injustices, the body blows, the mistreatments piled onto him. From there he loves, still (Romans 5:8). He invites us into fellowship with his empathy. We receive it form him in depth. Truly, we rise again and actually give, maybe for the first time in our lives.”

By: Charles Spurgeon
Put together by: Zack Eswine

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    I liked this. I think a lot of it is very true.
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