(Spurgeon's text is Ezekiel 34:26 KJV.)
26And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing. (Ezekiel 34:26, King James Version)
But notice, next, the personality of the blessing. "I will make them a blessing." "I will make each member of the church a blessing." Many people come up to the house of prayer, where the church assembles: and you say, "Well, what are you doing at such-and-such a place where you attend?" "Well, we are doing so-and-so." "How do you spell we?" "It is a plain monosyllable, " say you. "Yes, but do you put I in 'we?'" "No." There are a great many people who could easily spell "we" without an I in it ; for though they say, "We have been doing so-and-so," they do not say, "How much have I done? Did I do anything in it? Yes ; this chapel has been enlarged ; what did I subscribe? Twopence!" Of course it is done. Those who paid the money have done it. "We preach the gospel." Do we indeed? "Yes, we sit in our pew and listen a little, and do not pray for a blessing. We have got such a large Sunday School." Did you ever teach in it? "We have got a very good working society." Did you ever go to work in it? That is not the way to spell "we." It is, "I will make them a blessing." When Jerusalem was built, every man began nearest to his own house. That is where you must begin to build or do something. Do not let us tell a lie about it. If we do not have some share in the building, if we neither handle the trowel nor the spear, let us not talk about our church ; for the text says, "I will make them a blessing, " every one of them.The passage quoted comes from Spurgeon's Sermons.
"But, sir, what can I do? I am nothing but a father at home ; I am so full of business, I can only see my children a little." But in your business, do you ever have any servants? "No ; I am a servant myself." You have fellow-servants? "No ' I work alone." Do you work alone, then, and live alone, like a monk in a cell? I don't believe that. But you have fellow-servants at work ' cannot you say a word to their conscience? "I don't like to intrude religion into the business." Quite right, too ' so say I ' when I am at business, let it be business; when you are at religion, let it be religion. But do you never have an opportunity? Why, you cannot go into an omnibus, or a railway carriage, but what you can say something for Jesus Christ. I have found it so, and I don't believe I am different from other people. Cannot do anything? Cannot you put a tract into your hat, and drop it where you go? Cannot yo uspeak a word to a child? Where does this man come from, that cannot do anything? There is a spider on the wall ; but he taketh hold on kings' palaces, and spinneth his web to rid the world of noxious flies. There is a nettle in the corner of the churchyard ; but the physician tells me it has its virtues. There is a tiny star in the sky ; but that is noted in the chart, and the mariner looks at it. There is an insect under water ; built it builds a rock. God made all these things for something ; but here is a man that God made and gave him nothing at all to do! I do not believe it. God never makes useless things; he has no superfluous workmanship. I care not what you are ; you have somewhat to do. And oh! may God show you what it its, and then make you do it, by the wonderous compulsion of his providence and his grace.
