Preachers: Now Is Our Time

A great challenge from Spurgeon:

Now is our time for preaching; now is your time for teaching the children. Seven heavens could not find us another pulpit when once we got to glory; we might almost wish that they could. What opportunities of praying with the sick, and instructing ignorant children you now have! You will not have them when once you are in the other world; therefore use the golden hours you have while you are here below. Your service is not finished, so do not wish to be treated as though it were. Ask not honor from men, ask not even for honor from God, if that were meant to exempt you from further shame, from further suffering, from further reproach, for Christ’s dear sake. The further we go in his service, the more resolved we are to give up everything for him. (Spurgeon's Sermons: Volume 39)