# “Tread the clusters of truth” by Charles Spurgeon

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“_I will meditate in Thy precepts_.” **—Psalm 119:15**

“There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than
speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, 
and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in His
service.

We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment 
out of them. Truth is something like the cluster of the vine: if we would have wine
from it, we must bruise it; we must press and squeeze it many times. The bruiser’s
feet must come down joyfully upon the bunches, or else the juice will not flow; 
and they must well tread the grapes, or else much of the precious liquid will be
wasted.

So we must, by meditation, tread the clusters of truth, if we would get the wine
of consolation therefrom. Our bodies are not supported by merely taking food into
the mouth, but the process which really supplies the muscle, and the nerve, and 
the sinew, and the bone, is the process of digestion. It is by digestion that the
outward food becomes assimilated with the inner life.

Our souls are not nourished merely by listening awhile to this, and then to that,
and then to the other part of divine truth. Hearing, reading, marking, and learning,
all require inwardly digesting to complete their usefulness, and the inward digesting
of the truth lies for the most part in meditating upon it.

Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances
in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully 
meditate on God’s Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would
have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit
hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, 
but they will not stoop to drink it.

From such folly deliver us, O Lord, and be this our resolve this morning, ‘I will
meditate in Thy precepts.'”

–Charles H. Spurgeon, “[Morning, October 12](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1433598663?tag=toletaupanre-20),”_**
[Morning and Evening: Daily Readings](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1433598663?tag=toletaupanre-20)**_(
London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1896), 256.

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