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Communion with God: Power of
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
In driving piles, a machine is used by which a huge weight is lifted up and then made to fall upon the head of the pile. Of course the higher the weight is lifted the more powerful is the blow which it gives when it descends. Now, if we would tell upon our age and come down upon society with ponderous blows, we must see to it that we are uplifted as near to God as possible. All our power will depend upon the elevation of our spirits. Prayer, meditation, devotion, communion, are like a windlass to wind us up aloft; it is not lost time which we spend in such sacred exercises, for we are thus accumulating force, so that when we come down to our actual labour for God, we shall descend with an energy unknown to those to whom communion is unknown.
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Spurgeon, Charles. Entry for 'Communion with God: Power of'. Spurgeon's Illustration Collection. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​fff/​c/communion-with-god-power-of.html. 1870.