"... When you are at the base you see little; the mountain itself appears to be half as high as it really is. Confined in a little valley, you discover scarcely anything but the rippling brooks into the stream at the base..."
"... Go up higher, and higher still, till you stand upton the summit of one of the great roots and that start out as spurs from the sides of the mountain, you see the country for some four or five miles rounds and you are delighted with the widening prospect..."
"... But go onward, and onward, and onward, and how the scene enlarges, till at last, when you are on the summit, and look east, west, north and south, you see almost all England lying before you... All these things please and delight you and you say, 'I could not have imagined that so much could be seen at this elevation..."
"... When we first believe in Christ we see but little of him. The higher we climb, the more we discover of his excellencies and his beauties." So we press onward, onward and onward longing for the day when our faith shall be sight.
The quotes come from a sermon given by Charles Spurgeon in Surrey Music Hall on August 21, 1859. The title of the discourse is "Faith Illustrated", Spurgeon uses 2 Timothy 1:12 to explain how faith is the grandest action of the Christians life, how the grand act of trust and faith is justified and how we can have confidence and faith that Jesus will hold our souls tightly throughout eternity.
"which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me."
2 Timothy 1:12
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