16/06/2026
‘Dear ones, we must take care that our religion becomes increasingly an outgrowth of our souls. Many professing believers are hedged about with, “You must not do this or that”,’ writes C.H. Spurgeon, citing Romans 6:14 (‘You are not under law, but under grace’).
‘You do not obey the will of God because you hope to earn heaven, or dream of escaping from divine wrath by your own works, but because there is a life in you that seeks after that which is holy and pure, right and true, and cannot endure that which is evil. You are careful to maintain good works … because there is something holy within you, born of God, that seeks according to its nature to do that which is pleasing to God.’
Spurgeon continues, speaking of a ‘real, true, natural’ religion, and not ‘a fungus produced by excitement; or a fermentation generated by meetings and stirred by oratory. We all need a religion that can live either in a wilderness or in a crowd, a religion that will show itself in every walk of life and company.’
(Source: Spurgeon, ‘The Soulwinner’, Whitaker House, pp. 197-198).
