The Iceberg Weekly

Week of June 8, 2026

One Insight

Spurgeon wrote that the gracious man is described both negatively and positively — what he turns away from, and what he turns toward. His footsteps, Spurgeon said, are "ordered by the Word of God, and not by the cunning and wicked devices of carnal men." And then this: "It is a rich sign of inward grace when the outward walk is changed."

That phrase stopped me.

A rich sign. Not proof. Not evidence to be scrutinized. A sign — the kind you notice when you're paying attention. Formation is always happening beneath the surface before it shows up in the walk. The changed behavior is the signal that something has already shifted below.

Most of us are watching the surface when we should be watching the roots. And the root, as Spurgeon knew, is not willpower or moral effort — it is Christ himself, forming his life in us from the inside out. The changed walk is not something we produce. It is something we receive as we remain in him.

One Question

Where in your life have you noticed your outward walk changing — not because you tried harder, but because Christ was quietly doing something in you that you didn't fully see until it showed up in how you lived?

One Practice

This week, when you react in a way that surprises you — for good or ill — pause long enough to ask: what was Christ doing beneath that? Don't analyze it to death. Just notice it. Name it. Bring it to him.

Keep watch. — Rob

C.H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, Psalm 1:1-2