Religion & Spirituality
Isaiah 59:1-15a Charles Spurgeon on this text: "You thought that God's hand was shortened, that it could not save; but it is your hand that is shortened, for you have not laid hold upon Christ. You have not taken your sins to Him to be put away . . . You said that God's ear was dull. Nay, nay, nay, it is your ear that is dull; you have not heard what God the Lord has been saying to you, you have not been obedient to the heavenly message. All the mischief lies with yourself, not with God; and at the last, if you are not saved, the blame will not rest upon the Saviour, but upon yourself. This is the doctrine that we preach; if a man be saved, all the honour is to be given to Christ; but if a man be lost, all the blame is to be laid upon himself. You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences: salvation is all of the grace of God, damnation is all of the will of man."