Oh, Christians, never be satisfied with being merely saved. Up with you! Away off! Go onward, up the path of loving duty to the high mountains, to the clearer light, to the brighter joy.
If saved and brought like the shipwrecked mariner to shore, is that enough? Yes, for the moment it is enough to warrant the purest satisfaction and the warmest congratulations.
Must the mariner not seek a livelihood as long as he lives? Must he not put forth his energies? Just so let it be with you. Saved from the deep which threatened to swallow you up, rejoice that you are preserved from deathr but resolve that the life vouchsafed to you shall be active, earnest, fruitful, vigorous and dutiful. Be active as your merchants are.—SPURGEON.
