Is Tammy Worthy to Teach?  Real Southern Woman
Channel: REAL SOUTHERN WOMAN, COLLARD VALLEY COOK
Date: 2022-03-02

Charles Haddon Spurgeon :: Morning and Evening
March 2nd — Evening Reading
"Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ." — Ephesians 3:8
The apostle Paul felt it a great privilege to be allowed to preach the gospel. He did not look upon his calling as a drudgery, but he entered upon it with intense delight. Yet while Paul was thankful for his office, his success in it greatly humbled him. 
The fuller a vessel becomes, the deeper it sinks in the water. Idlers may indulge an arrogance of their abilities because they are untried; but the earnest worker soon learns his own weakness. 
If you seek humility, try hard work; if you would know your nothingness, attempt some great thing for Jesus. If you would feel how utterly powerless you are apart from the living God, attempt the great work of proclaiming the unsearchable riches of Christ, and you will know, as you never knew before, what a weak unworthy thing you are. 
Although the apostle knew and confessed his weakness, he was never puzzled about the subject of his ministry. 
From his first sermon to his last, Paul preached Christ, and nothing but Christ. He lifted up the cross and worshiped the Son of God who bled thereon. 
Follow his example in all your personal efforts to spread the glad tidings of salvation and let "Christ and Him crucified" be your ever recurring theme. 
The Christian should be like lovely spring flowers which, when the sun is shining, opens their golden cups, as if saying, "Fill us with thy beams!" but when the sun is hidden behind a cloud, they close their cups and droop their heads. 
So should the Christian feel the sweet influence of Jesus; Jesus must be his sun. The Christian must be the flower which yields itself to the Sun of Righteousness.
Christ alone, is the subject which is both "seed for the Sower, and bread for the eater." 
Christ is the living Word for the lip of the speaker, and the master-key to the heart of the hearer.

Edited by Tammy Nichols on 03/02/22 for easy reading on the Real Southern Woman vlog.