Beware, my dear Christian friends, of living by feeling...He that lives by feeling will be happy today, and unhappy tomorrow; and if our salvation depended upon our feelings, we should be lost one day and saved another, for they are as fickle as the weather, and go up and down like a barometer. We live by faith, and if that faith be weak, bless God that weak faith is faith, and that weak faith is true faith. If thou believest in Christ Jesus, though thy faith be as a grain of mustard seed, it will save thee, and it will, by-and-bye, grow into something stronger.
My goodness, that's so beautiful, Dr. E. Thanks for posting it.
Pastor Leithart had a piece a while back it was called The Cross of Reality. I found it at google, but all I got was a blank screen when I tried to access. I wanted to post some of it. Anyway, he says that ERH points out that we Christians live much of our lives in a state that vacillates between unbelief and belief. And he mentions that we are pulled in opposite directions (like Christ is on the Cross), not so much by naked unbelief but by life and those things that press upon us day in and day out, and that many times it is crisis that brings us back to that state of vibrant belief. Pastor Leithart did a much better job of getting ERH's point across though.
Spurgeon's piece here makes me think of the holiness of the ordinary too. I've always loved to make and bake bread because for whatever reason it becomes a holy undertaking to me.
I googled Leithart's fascinating sermon from January and caught the cached version. But when I went back to finish reading it, it was gone. Phooey. It looked really dense. I figured I'd need more than one reading. I liked what he was saying about comedy and tragedy, and how all time and reality and history are centered on the cross. Too bad it can't be accessed for some reason.
Here's some of his sermon notes which reference "The Cross of Reality" --
http://www.leithart.com/archives/002836.php