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NASB | Psalm 38:8 I am benumbed and badly crushed; I groan because of the agitation of my heart. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Psalm 38:8 I am numb and greatly bruised [deadly cold and completely worn out]; I groan because of the disquiet and moaning of my heart. |
Subject: Repentance After Conversion |
Bible Note: "A broken spirit is one out of which hypocrisy has gone. That vessel, whole and sealed up, may contain the most precious odor of roses, or it may contain the foulest filth; I know not what is in it. But break it and you will soon see. There is no hypocrisy about a broken heart. Oh brethren and sisters be before men what you are before God! Seem to be what you really are. Make no pretenses. I am afraid that we are all hypocrites in measure; we both pray and preach above our own actual experience full often, and perhaps think we have more faith than we actually have, and more love than we have ever known. The Lord makes us to have a broken heart that is revealed by being broken! "Once more, a broken spirit signifies that now all secrets and essences of the Spirit have flowed out. You remember what happened when that holy woman broke the alabaster box; we read that 'the house was filled with the odor of that ointment.' An broken heart cannot keep secrets. Now is all revealed, now its essence goes forth. Far too much of our praying and of our worship is like closed up boxes; you cannot tell what is in them. But it is not so with broken hearts; when broken hearts sing they do sing. When broken hearts groan they do groan. Broken hearts never play at repenting nor play at believing. There is, much of religion nowadays, that is very superficial, it is all on the surface; a very small quantity of gospel paint, with just a little varnish of profession, will go a very long way and look very bright. But broken hearts are not like that; with broken hearts the hymn is a real hymn, the prayer is a real prayer, the hearing of sermons is earnest work, and the preaching of them the hardest work of all. Oh what a mercy it would be if some of you were broken all to pieces! There are many flowers that will never yield their perfume till they are bruised. When God has put sweetness into our hearts, it is then that breaking develops the sweetness. Oh to worship God in Spirit and in truth! One has well said: 'No one ever worshiped God with his whole heart unless he worshiped Him with a broken heart; and there was never a heart that was truly broken that did not thereby become a whole heart.'" --Charles H. Spurgeon (Sermon "Repentance After Conversion" June 12, 1887) |
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