DAILY READINGS by Charles Spurgeon
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MORNING: July 25 In contending with certain sins there remains no mode of victory but by flight. The
ancient naturalists wrote much of basilisks, whose eyes fascinated their victims and
rendered them easy victims; so the mere gaze of wickedness puts us in solemn danger. He
who would be safe from acts of evil must haste away from occasions of it. A covenant must
be made with our eyes not even to look upon the cause of temptation, for such sins only
need a spark to begin with and a blaze follows in an instant. Who would wantonly enter the
leper's prison and sleep amid its horrible corruption? He only who desires to be leprous
himself would thus court contagion. If the mariner knew how to avoid a storm, he would do
anything rather than run the risk of weathering it. Cautious pilots have no desire to try
how near the quicksand they can sail, or how often they may touch a rock without springing
a leak; their aim is to keep as nearly as possible in the midst of a safe channel. |
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From Charles H. Spurgeon's Morning and Evening.
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