Around the wicket gate by C. H. Spurgeon (available from Amazon or free on the internet, here for example)
Chapter Six answers the objection that a person can find it too difficult to believe. Spurgeon tells us that although it may be difficult, it is not impossible to believe: 'If you want to believe in Jesus, hear about Him, read about Him, think about Him, know about Him, and so you will find faith springing up in your heart'.
I think when I read Spurgeon in the book club I should re-name this section to 'What illustration grabbed me' because that's all I seem to comment on!
And today is no exception: 'Did you ever notice how a fir tree will get a hold among rocks which seem to afford it no soil? It sends a rootlet into any little crack which opens. It clutches even the bare rock as with a huge bird's claw. It holds fast and binds itself to earth with a hundred anchor points. We have often seen trees thus firmly rooted on detached masses of bare rock. Now, dear heart, let this be a picture of yourself. Grip the Rock of Ages. With the rootlet of Little-faith hold to Him. Let that tiny feeler grow. Meanwhile, send out another to take new grasp of the same Rock. Lay hold of Jesus and keep hold of Jesus. Grow up into Him. Twist the roots of your nature, the fibers of your heart, about Him. He is as free to you as the rocks are to the fir tree. Be as firmly lashed to Him as the pine is to the mountain's side.'
Are you still sending out little feelers to anchor yourself more and more to the Rock of Ages?
Now it's your turn
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