Serving God With An Eye Single

SERVING GOD WITH AN EYE SINGLE TO HIS GLORY

Subject PRAISE

Of all the preachers who ever lived, none was as lauded as was Charles Spurgeon. I found it interesting to note how he responded to the praise given to him. He wrote: "I have found, at times, if I have been much praised, and if my heart had given way a little, and I have taken notice of it and felt pleased, that the next time I was censored and abused I felt the censure and abuse more keenly, for the very fact that I accepted the commendation, rendered me more sensitive to the censure. So that I have tried, especially of late, to take no more notice of man's praise than his blame, but to rest simply upon this truth — I know I have a pure motive in what I attempt to do — to serve God with an eye single to his glory; and therefore it is not for me to take either praise or censure from man, but to stand independently upon the solid rock of right doing."

[Richard Ellsworth Day, The Shadow of the Broad Brim: The Life Story of C. H. Spurgeon. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1934, pp. 214-215]