Steve Hammer
Corruptions —overcome Gradually.
“WHEN Sir Christopher Wren was engaged in
demolishing the ruins of old St. Paul’s in
order to make room for his new cathedral, he
used a battering-ram with which thirty men
continued to beat upon a part of the wall for
a whole day. The workmen, not discerning
any immediate effect, thought this a waste of
time; but Wren, who knew that the internal
motion thus communicated must be
operating, encouraged them to preserve. On
the second day, the wall began to tremble at
the top, and fell in a few hours. If our prayers
and repentances do not appear to overcome
our corruptions, we must continue still to use
these gracious battering-rams, for in due
time by faith in Jesus Christ the power of evil
shall be overthrown. Lord, enable me to give
hearty blows by the power of thy Holy Spirit
until the gates of hell in my soul shall be
made to totter and fall.”~Spurgeon
Rom 8:13 but if ye through the Spirit do
mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Linda MacDonald
Voice of the dying Church 