Around the wicket gate - Spurgeon - II - Chapter 3

Required reading
Around the wicket gate by C. H. Spurgeon (available from Amazon or free on the internet, here for example) - Read Chapter 3.

My summary
Following hard on the heels of Chapter Two which told us that Jesus is the answer to salvation, now Spurgeon gives us Chapter Three which tells us that it is not good enough to acknowledge that Jesus is the answer - we must believe it.

What grabbed me
More good illustrations from the prince of preachers: 'The dove is hunted by the hawk and finds no security from its restless enemy.  It has learned that there is shelter for it in the cleft of the rock and hastens there on glad wing.  Once wholly sheltered within its refuge, the dove fears no bird of prey...So does the guilty soul dart into the pierced side of Jesus by faith and is buried in Him out of sight of avenging justice.'

Now it's your turn
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