Spurgeon: September AM
* 09/07/AM
"And when they could not come nigh unto Him for the press, they
uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up,
they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay."
--Mark 2:4
Faith is full of inventions . The house was full, a crowd
blocked up the door, but faith found a way of getting at the
Lord and placing the palsied man before Him. If we cannot get
sinners where Jesus is by ordinary methods we must use
extraordinary ones. It seems, according to Luke 5:19, that a
tiling had to be removed, which would make dust and cause a
measure of danger to those below, but where the case is very
urgent we must not mind running some risks and shocking some
proprieties. Jesus was there to heal, and therefore fall what
might, faith ventured all so that her poor paralyzed charge
might have his sins forgiven. O that we had more daring faith
among us! Cannot we, dear reader, seek it this morning for
ourselves and for our fellow-workers, and will we not try to-day
to perform some gallant act for the love of souls and the glory
of the Lord.
The world is constantly inventing; genius serves all the
purposes of human desire: cannot faith invent too, and reach by
some new means the outcasts who lie perishing around us? It was
the presence of Jesus which excited victorious courage in the
four bearers of the palsied man: is not the Lord among us now?
Have we seen His face for ourselves this morning? Have we felt
His healing power in our own souls? If so, then through door,
through window, or through roof, let us, breaking through all
impediments, labour to bring poor souls to Jesus. All means are
good and decorous when faith and love are truly set on winning
souls. If hunger for bread can break through stone walls, surely
hunger for souls is not to be hindered in its efforts. O Lord,
make us quick to suggest methods of reaching Thy poor sin-sick
ones, and bold to carry them out at all hazards.