When you wallow in the mud
of worldly pleasures!
(Charles Spurgeon, "Flowers from a Puritan's Garden" 1883)
"If you saw a man laboring in filthy ditches,
and soiling himself as poor men do--
would you believe that he was the heir
to a crown, called to inherit a kingdom?
Just so, who will believe in your heavenly calling--
when you wallow in the mud of worldly pleasures,
and are absorbed with carking care for trivial things?"
Princes should behave as princes!
Their haunts should be in palaces--
and not amid dung-heaps!
How, then, is it that some who profess
and call themselves Christians, are found
rummaging in questionable amusements
to discover pleasure; and many others
are groping amid sordid avarice to find
satisfaction in wealth?
What are they doing--
to be thus disgracing the blood royal!
How dare they drag the name
of the "Blessed and only Potentate"
through the mire!
A prince of royal-blood acting as a beggar,
would dishonor not only himself but all
the royal house.Nobility has obligations!
The eminent nobility of the saints,
puts them under heavy bonds to act
as the true aristocracy of the universe!
Come, my soul, do you behave royally?
I am made a king by JESUS CHrIST--
are my bearing and life-style answerable
to the dignity laid upon me?
LORD, you must teach your poor child.
I have so long been a vagabond and an
outcast, that unless you teach me
the majestic life-style of your holy courts--
I will dishonor both myself and YOU!
set your hearts on things above, where CHRIST
is seated at the right hand of GOD. Set your
minds on things above, not on earthly things.
For you died, and your life is now hidden with
CHRIST in GOD!" Colossians 3:1-3
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