Work of God Humbling – Charles Spurgeon

WHEN John in Patmos saw the Lord, he fell at his feet as dead; a sense of the glory of his Lord overpowered him: such has been in a degree our own experience, alike in meditating upon Scripture and in wandering in the dark gorges of the Alps. Let a man stand on what is called the Devil’s Bridge on the St. Gothard road, where the fury of the Reuss seems lashed to madness—let him look above, beneath, and around, and as he shivers into nothingness let him say, “As for man, whose breath is in his nostrils, wherein is he to be accounted of?”