“Facing the Wind”From Charles Spurgeon:
“Instead of bringing a railing accusation against churches as they are, the best thing is for everyone of us to do his best in the sight of God to make them what they should be, by seeking our own personal sanctification and endeavoring that the influence of a holy life shall, in our case, help to leaven the rest of the mass.
“Paul turns from the consideration of those who had grieved him in the church to speak to the rest of the brethren, and he says to them, ‘But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.’ In expounding these words we shall, first, notice that our text contains a summary of Christian life; it is called ‘well doing.’ Secondly, we shall see it gives out a very distinct warning against weariness; and it hints at some of the causes of weariness in the Christian life. In the third place, I shall close the discourse by giving some arguments to meet the reasoning of our soul when, at times, it seems to plead its own weariness as an excuse.
“Well doing is attending to the duties that arise out of our relationships in life — attending carefully to them, and seeing that in nothing we are eye-servers and men-pleasers, but in everything are seeking to serve God. I know it is difficult to make people feel that such simple and ordinary things as these are well doing.
“Away with superstition! Kill it, by counting every place to be holy, and every day to be holy, and every action that you perform to be a part of the high priesthood to which the Lord Jesus Christ has called every soul that he has washed in his precious blood.
– Everything is well doing that is done in obedience to the divine command.
– Again, everything that is done out of love to God is well doing.
– well doing includes that which we do in divine strength.
“Some of you could take a high degree in criticizing admirably everybody else that does anything, and putting your own hands into your pockets and keeping them there. Well-talking also is a great deal more common than well doing.”