Monday, August 27, 2007

Spurgeon on Election

"I know nothing, nothing again, that is more humbling for us than this doctrine of election. I have sometimes fallen postrate before it, when endeavoring to understand it. I have stretched my wings, and eagle-like, I have soared towards the sun. Steady has been my eye, and true my wing, for a season; but, when I came near it, and the one thought possessed me,--"God hath chosen you from the beginning unto salvation," I was lost in its lustre, I was staggered with the mighty thought; and from the dizzy elevation down came my soul, postrate and broken, saying, "Lord, I am nothing, I am less than nothing. Why me? Why me?"