LORD, Save Us From A Life Which Does Not Grow.

'Tom Thumbs' in grace!

(Charles Spurgeon, "Flowers from a Puritan's Garden" 1883)

"Though by this time you ought to be 
teachers, you need someone to teach you 
the elementary truths of GOD'S Word all 
over again. You need milk, not solid food!" 
Hebrews 5:12

"An infant, if he should continue an 

infant always, would be a monster!"

However pleased the parents had been 

with the little one when it was a babe, 

they would soon be deeply distressed if 

year after year it still remained a tiny thing. 

Indeed, they would consider it a great 

calamity to be the parents of a dwarf.

What, then, shall we say of those professors who 

never grow? They are no more holy after fifty years! 

They are infants at sixty years of age!

I have in my house a picture which is made 

up of the portraits of my sons, taken on their 

birthdays for twenty-one years. They begin 

in the cradle, and end as full-grown young men. 

This is interesting and according to nature.

But, alas, I have spiritual children whom 

I wheeled about in the stroller twenty years ago--

and they are babies still, needing as much care 

as ever, and are not able to walk alone. 

Ah me, that so many who ought to be warriors, 

are weaklings; that those who should be men 

of six feet tall, are so stunted as to be mere 

'Tom Thumbs' in grace!

O for grace to grow in grace, and especially
in the knowledge of my LORD and SAVIOR,
JESUS CHRIST. GOD save us from a life which
does not grow, and from a growth which is not healthy!

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