Backsliding Christian, go at once to the cross!
There, and there only, can you get your spirit
quickened. No matter how hard, how insensible,
how dead you may have become, go again in
all your rags and poverty.
Clasp that cross!
Look into those languid eyes!
Bathe in that fountain filled with blood!
This will bring back your first love. This will
restore the simplicity of your faith, and the
tenderness of your heart.
There, and there only, can you get your spirit
quickened. No matter how hard, how insensible,
how dead you may have become, go again in
all your rags and poverty.
Clasp that cross!
Look into those languid eyes!
Bathe in that fountain filled with blood!
This will bring back your first love. This will
restore the simplicity of your faith, and the
tenderness of your heart.
[Charles H. Spurgeon]
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Jeremiah 3:22 ... Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the Lord our God.
Isaiah 1:18 ... Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
1 John 1:7-9 ... But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.❤
