Wasted years can be restored by a miracle of love
Charles Spurgeon
SUMMARY: Through God's abundant grace, we can make up for the years we wasted in rebellion, worldliness, and lukewarmness. We can accumulate a service that compensates for our past impiety and use our bitter experience to warn others. If we become more vigilant, jealous, and tender, we can still win and become more useful to God. Let us believe in this miracle of love and live for it. Peter became a much more useful man after his presumption was healed by his manifest weakness. Let us pray for God's help and grace.
Yes, those wasted years for whose cause we long will be restored to us. God can give us such abundant grace that, in the remainder of our days, we will be able to accumulate a service that compensates for all those years of impiety, for which we groan in humble penance.
The caterpillars of rebellion, worldliness and lukewarmness are now seen by us as a terrible plague. Oh, that they had never approached us! The Lord, in His mercy, has removed them from us, and we are full of zeal to serve Him. Blessed be His name because we will be able to raise such harvests of spiritual graces, which will make our former barrenness disappear. Through abundant grace, we can capitalize on our bitter experience and use it to warn others. Because of our previous shortcomings, we may become more rooted in humility, childlike dependency, and penitent spirituality. If we become more vigilant, jealous and tender, we will win because of our unfortunate losses. Wasted years can be restored by a miracle of love. Does that seem like too great a blessing? Let us believe in it and live for it and we can still realize it, just as Peter became a much more useful man after his presumption was healed by his manifest weakness. Lord, help us by Your grace.
Source: The Bank of Faith Checkbook. Translation by Allan Roman.
http://www.spurgeon.com.mx/chequera/meditames/mayo.pdf
The caterpillars of rebellion, worldliness and lukewarmness are now seen by us as a terrible plague. Oh, that they had never approached us! The Lord, in His mercy, has removed them from us, and we are full of zeal to serve Him. Blessed be His name because we will be able to raise such harvests of spiritual graces, which will make our former barrenness disappear. Through abundant grace, we can capitalize on our bitter experience and use it to warn others. Because of our previous shortcomings, we may become more rooted in humility, childlike dependency, and penitent spirituality. If we become more vigilant, jealous and tender, we will win because of our unfortunate losses. Wasted years can be restored by a miracle of love. Does that seem like too great a blessing? Let us believe in it and live for it and we can still realize it, just as Peter became a much more useful man after his presumption was healed by his manifest weakness. Lord, help us by Your grace.
Source: The Bank of Faith Checkbook. Translation by Allan Roman.
http://www.spurgeon.com.mx/chequera/meditames/mayo.pdf
