Pictures of Life | A Spurgeon Sermon on James 4:14

In this sermon preached on the evening before his 21st birthday, CH Spurgeon reflects on the profound question, "What is your life?" 

With poetic intensity, he walks through Scripture's gallery of metaphors to reveal life's swiftness, uncertainty, and constant change.

Spurgeon paints life as a racing messenger, a swift ship crowding on sail, an eagle hastening to prey, a weaver's shuttle, and wind itself. He shows it as fragile as vapor, insubstantial as shadow, uncertain as a shepherd's tent pitched and removed at God's command. Through it all, he calls believers to recognize that life is a pilgrimage leading to heaven, a story directed by God's sovereign will, ending in eternal glory or judgment.

This sermon was preached on June 18, 1855 at New Park Street Chapel, Southwark and is found in Volume 55 of the New Park Street Pulpit.

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