Reading Reflection:

Spurgeon’s Sermons, Vol. 1&2, Christ Crucified, Charles Haddon Spurgeon (Baker Books, second printing, 1999)

I confess I have a shelf in my head for everything now.  Whatever I read I know where to put it; whatever I learn I know where to stow it away.  Once when I read books, I put all my knowledge together in glorious confusion; but ever since I have known Christ, I have put Christ in the centre as my sun, and each science revolves round it like a planet, while minor sciences are satellites for those planets.  Christ is to me the wisdom of God.  I can learn everything now.  The science of Christ crucified is the most excellent of sciences, she is to me the wisdom of God.  O, young man, build thy studio on Calvary ! (109)

I thought this was appropriate for Holy Week.  As we are busy going about our spring cleaning chores, maybe it would be well for us to rearrange some of our theological and philosophical furniture as well.  Sometimes I complain of being so distracted that I feel like there are a bunch of crumpled pieces of paper in my brain—beginnings of thoughts that I’d like to finish and file away properly.  This is a week Jesus Christ and His crucifixion lay heavier on our minds.  Let it also be a time to dust off that shelf in our head, and keep Him at the center of all our knowledge.  Shine that shelf; toss out all the clutter.  Let us pray like David:

Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there’s any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting. (Ps. 139)