Activity, Christian – Charles Spurgeon

OH! I would that some Christians would pay a little attention to their legs, instead of paying it all to their heads. When children’s heads grow too fast it is a sign of disease, and they get the rickets, or water on the brain. So, there are some very sound brethren, who seem to me to have got some kind of disease, and when they try to walk, they immediately make a tumble of it, because they have paid so much attention to perplexing doctrinal views, instead of looking, as they ought to have done, to the practical part of Christianity. By all means let us have doctrine, but by all means let us have precept too. By all means let us have inward experience, but by all means let us also have outward “holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.” “We walk.” This is more than some can say. They can affirm—”We talk; we think; we experience; we feel;” but true Christians can say, with the apostle Paul, “We walk.” Oh that we may ever be able to say it too! Here, then, is the activity of the Christian life.