Only a prayer meeting by Charles Spurgeon (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read the chapters entitled 'Steal away to Jesus' and 'An address to Sunday-School teachers'.
Firstly Spurgeon explains what it means to 'steal away to Jesus': you don't get the devil notice. Spurgeon then says that you need to steal away to Christ because:
(i) if you give the devil notice, you will never get away from him;
(ii) you cannot give the devil full notice, you always hang onto other sins.
Secondly Spurgeon addresses the Sunday-School teachers. He asks them to consider:
(i) the great good they receive by teaching;
(ii) that the same Gospel that saves grown-up people saves children.
I enjoyed Spurgeon's comments on the benefits of teaching others: 'Nothing, I think, tends to keep piety so much alive as trying to bring others to Christ. If a man does not feel his own weakness, and his entire dependence upon the Holy Spirit as he once did, when he begins to teach others, he soon finds that old Adam, even in young children, is far too strong for him. Thus, trying to teach others, teaches us humility.'
Yes, it is certainly humbling when you faithfully teach the gospel and then have no response from your listeners.
Next week's reading
Read the chapters entitled 'Fellowship with God's greatness' and 'Timely cautions'.
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