Sermon of the Week: “My Restorer”

This week we continue our series highlighting Spurgeon’s sermons from Psalm 23.

In this 1873 sermon, Charles Spurgeon calls attention to Christ as the Restorer of souls. “I desire to glorify him from one particular point of view, namely, as The Restorer, who his own self brings back our wandering spirits when we forsake his ways.”

Like sheep, we tend to wander away from our Shepherd. Distractions and forgetfulness subtly draw us away from abiding in Christ. Sin can put distance between us and our Savior, preventing us from experiencing His close communion.

But the good news, Spurgeon reminds us, is that Jesus is ready and willing to restore us to fellowship with Himself. “Christ delights to meet us on terms of grace, he is to be fulness and we emptiness, he the mighty Helper and we the fainting sinner, he the Saviour and we the lost ones.”

Without His life-giving power, we would be like sheep without a shepherd. But Christ’s presence is the balm for all wounds, the healing for all pains, the comfort for all losses.  “…[T]here is no possible state into which a believer could fall…but what Christ can restore him perfectly and at once.”

Excerpt:

All our healing lies in Christ. Christ is the physician, and Christ is medicine too. The way to get your soul restored is not to try to restore it yourself, nor to undergo any processes by which it may work itself right; but go straight away to Christ, and lay hold on him, just as you are, whatever your condition may be. Coming into contact with him, you shall soon have to sing in the words of the text, “He restoreth my soul.”

Read the rest of the sermon here.