Spurgeon's Sermons The Eye—A Similitude
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Mar 28, 2026 A vivid sermon explores the plea "Keep me as the apple of the eye" and our dependence on divine guarding. It compares God’s care to the eye’s natural defenses and urges constant spiritual vigilance. The talk highlights protection through Scripture, prayer, the Spirit, angels, and staying united to Christ. It warns against small compromises that blind conscience and calls for tender, single‑hearted devotion.
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Prayer Shows Self Knowledge And Trust In God
- The plea Keep me as the apple of the eye expresses self-knowledge of weakness and reliance on God's omniscience, omnipotence, love, and faithfulness.
- Spurgeon connects the prayer to recognizing inward corruption, outward dangers, and trusting God's ability to foresee and avert all assaults.
Pray For Multiple Layers Of Divine Protection
- Ask God for layered protection like the eye's anatomical safeguards: providence, grace, the Holy Spirit, and angelic ministry.
- Spurgeon urges praying Lead me not into temptation and requesting both providential and gracious guardianship.
Divine Keeping Is Continuous Like Eye Reflexes
- God's guarding is constant and often unconscious, like tear fluid and involuntary eyelid closure that protect the eye even during sleep.
- Spurgeon uses physiology to argue believers need uninterrupted divine vigilance, day and night.
