The “world” – the souls and lives of others

By: American Decency Staff

Heavily quoted nineteenth century pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon wrote many things about “THE WORLD”.

Here are three of such quotes from his hand:

It is a world of toil, and I believe that it will go on so; and instead of getting better, the world will in some respects get worse.

God keeps his own and preserves them to the end, but they get nothing out of this world save the discipline of avoiding it. Vain world! It is no friend to grace; it does not help us on to God.

If there were no future to this world as well as to ourselves, we might be glad to escape from it, counting it to be nothing better than a huge penal colony, from which it would be a thousand mercies for both body and soul to be emancipated."
~ C.H. Spurgeon

Personal note:

As my Dad would say in his last years, "I have had a wonderful, wonderful life. I have no squawks."

I agree with my Dad!

But the beheadings, the ugliness, corruption, deceit, brokenness, divisions and schemings, the misuse of children, abortions, the injustice of the highest courts in our land can only be made sense of with this:

We know the following to be true!
For the Christian:

"Once I was blind, but now I can see — the light of the world is Jesus."

This IS the beginning not the end of all things.   

To be saved is a free gift of God, not of works lest any man should boost.

What God has done in my life is real.   Nevertheless,

I bear the mark of sin in my life (as does every human being) and will until the day I die.  (1) I’m so far from perfect.  (2) I know I will struggle all the days of my life with sin that is a part of my natural man.   (3) I also know that the Holy Spirit will strive within me quickening me to spiritual warfare against the sin within and without.

As the hymn writer wrote so long ago – his words apply so fully:

O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.

O that day when freed from sinning,
I shall see Thy lovely face;
Clothed then in blood washed linen
How I’ll sing Thy sovereign grace;
Come, my Lord, no longer tarry,
Take my ransomed soul away;
Send thine angels now to carry
Me to realms of endless day.
[Taken from “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing”]

So many times at funerals, when coming along side a grieving parent, spouse, loved one, I have heard these words:  “Where would I be without the Lord?”

This is what I want to pass onto my loved ones:  They must know how to fight – to fight the fight of faith.

If they aren’t saved, they will be oblivious to  besetting sin that desensitizes, undermines, corrupts destroys.  How do I know that ?   Look around you.   

Addicted, broken, perverted, thrown aside, used and abused.

I abhor (and you should to) the thought of loved ones, friends, acquaintances becoming the new statistics of the next generation.  

Burden us for the souls and lives of others.  

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