I recently started reading Charles Spurgeon’s “The Power of Prayer In A Believer’s Life”. I haven’t made it out of the first chapter yet, but already it has been packed with so much good stuff!! (I wanted to note that I don’t agree with everything Spurgeon taught, specifically some of his Calvinistic views, but he does have some really good things to say about prayer)
In this post series, I wanted to share some quotes from the beginning chapter of the book. In it, Spurgeon talks about “the throne of grace”, and he lays out six ways how a child of God is to approach that great throne. These points were very thought-provoking for me as I read them, and each one was something that was not just to be read once and then move on, but read, and read some more, and then pondered over before moving on to the next one. 🙂
Here is part one!
The throne of grace is to be approached with:
~ Lowly Reverence ~
“If we should always regard prayer as an entrance into the courts of the royalty of heaven, and if we are to behave ourselves as courtiers in the presence of an illustrious majesty, we are not at a loss to know the right spirit in which to pray. If in prayer we come to a throne, it is clear that our spirit should, in the first place, be one of lowly reverence…with what lowliness should you draw near to Him. Familiarity there may be, but let it not be unhallowed. Boldness there should be, but let it not be impertinent. You are still on earth, and He in heaven. You are still a worm of the dust, and He the Everlasting. Before the mountains were brought forth, He was God, and if all created things should pass away, yet He would still be the same. I am afraid we do not bow as we should before the Eternal Majesty.” -Charles Spurgeon
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