Chronological Snobbery

I remember listening to John Piper at our annual convention of churches in 1999 at Parksville Baptist Church on Vancouver Island. Something funny I remember is him saying was that we are often Chronological snobs. What he meant was that we are always reading the latest trendy and current best-sellers and igoring masterful works from the past. Chronological snobbery.

This morning I read part of a free E Book (in PDF Format) by Charles Spurgeon. He was a preacher who lived in Englad in the 1800's. What I read was from 1896. The Lord spoke to me so clearly through what Spurgeon spoke all those years ago:

I had never known sin to be so "exceeding sinful" if I had not known God to be so perfectly holy. I had never understood the depravity of my own nature if I had not known the holiness of God's nature. I am persuaded that there is no great actual distance between earth and heaven: the distance lies in our dull minds. Have your hearts right with Him, and He will visit you often, until every day you shall walk with God, as Enoch did, and so turn week-days into Sabbaths, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven. So be it with us! Amen.
—CH Spurgeon

www.spurgeon.org is a great collection of Spurgeon material from of old. I will be going back there quite often to do some more devotional reading.

Nuff Said