Believe Something!
So, when once you start in the way of error,
there is no possibility of stopping unless divine grace
shall interpose to save you from the consequences of the
first false step. You sow the wind, and you reap the
whirlwind. A little error leads to more, and that to still
more, until the very idea of God is given up. I therefore
love to meet a man who is stiff-backed in his orthodoxy;
and, in this age of laxness and looseness, I am prepared to
clap my hands even when I see a little bigotry.
I like a man to believe something,
to stick to it, to know that it is true, and not to be
ashamed to avow it in the teeth of his fellow-men, let them
oppose as they will; for there must be something true, and,
oh! that God’s gracious Spirit may teach us what it is; and
when we once know it, may we hold it fast, come life or come
death; for if we do not, we shall sow the wind, and reap the
whirlwind.
Charles H. Spurgeon – What
Shall the Harvest Be?
