Soul’s Restlessness in Sin – Charles Spurgeon

HOW apt was the simile of the old Saxon chieftain, when he compared the unenlightened soul to the bird which flew in at the open windows of the banquet-hall, was scared by the uproarious shouts of boisterous warriors around the fire, and passed out again by another window into the cold and the darkness. Our spirit, attracted by the tempting glare, darts into the halls of pleasure, but anon is frightened and alarmed by the rough voice of conscience, and the demands of insatiable passions, and away it flies from the momentary gleam of pleasure and dream of happiness into the thick darkness of discontent, and the snow storm of remorse. Man, without God, is like the mariner in the story, condemned to sail on forever, and never to find a haven. He is the real Wandering Jew, immortal in his restlessness.