Picking and Choosing

Beware of picking and choosing in God’s word. It is a very dangerous symptom when there is any portion of Scripture that we are afraid to read. If there is one single chapter in the Book that I do not like, it must be because I feel it accuses and condemns me, and my duty ought to be to face that chapter at once and answer its accusation, and endeavor as far as possible to purify myself by God’s help from that which the passage of Scripture condemns. Brethren, read that passage most which stings you most.

From a sermon by Charles Haddon Spurgeon entitled "The Secret Food And The Public Name." Image by Zach Dischner on Flickr under Creative Commons License.