Where There’s a Will There’s a Way

And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus. – Like 5:19

There is an old worldly proverb, that, “Where there’s a will there’s a way;” and if men be called of God’s grace to a deep anxiety for any particular soul, there is a way by which that soul may be brought to Jesus; but that way may not suggest itself till after much consideration. In some cases, the way to impress the heart may be an out-of-the-way way, an extraordinary way-a way which ordinarily should not be used and would not be successful. I dare say the four bearers in the narrative thought early in the morning, “We will carry this poor paralytic to the Savior, passing into the house by the ordinary door;” but when they attempted to do so the multitudes so blocked up the road that they could not even reach the threshold. “Make way; make way for the sick! Stand aside there and give room for a poor paralysed man. For mercy’s sake, give a little space, and let the sick man reach the healing Prophet!” In vain were their entreaties and commands…They must get the sick man in somehow…If we want to have souls saved, we must not be too squeamish and delicate about conventionalities, rules, and proprieties, for the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence. We must make up our minds to this: “Smash or crash, everything shall go to pieces which stands between the soul and its God: it matters not what tiles are to be taken off, what plaster is to be digged up, or what boards are to be torn away, or what labor, or trouble, or expense we may be at; the soul is too precious for us to stand upon nice questions. If by any means we may save some, is our policy. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/spurgeon_charles/sermons/0981.cfm

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