Post by MIRIAM JACOB on Dec 23, 2006 10:57:19 GMT -5
MORNING AND EVENING: Daily Readings by C. H. Spurgeon
Morning, December 1
THOU HAST MADE SUMMER AND WINTER
Psalm 74:17
My soul begin this wintry month with thy God.
The cold snows and the piercing winds all remind thee
that he keeps his covenant with day and night,
and tend to assure thee that he will also keep
that glorious covenant which he has made with thee
in the person of Christ Jesus.
He who is true to his Word in the revolutions of the
seasons of this poor sin-polluted world,
will not prove unfaithful in his dealings
with his own well-beloved Son.
Winter in the soul is by no means a comfortable season,
and if it be upon thee just now it will be very painful to thee:
but there is this comfort, namely, that the Lord makes it.
He sends the sharp blasts of adversity
to nip the buds of expectation:
he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes
over the once verdant meadows of our joy:
he casteth forth his ice like morsels
freezing the streams of our delight.
He does it all, he is the great Winter King,
and rules in the realms of frost,
and therefore thou canst not murmur.
Losses, crosses, heaviness, sickness,
poverty, and a thousand other ills,
are of the Lord's sending,
and come to us with wise design.
Frosts kill noxious insects,
and put a bound to raging diseases;
they break up the clods, and sweeten the soul.
O that such good results would
always follow our winters of affliction!
How we prize the fire just now!
how pleasant is its cheerful glow!
Let us in the same manner prize our Lord,
who is the constant source of warmth
and comfort in every time of trouble.
Let us draw nigh to him,
and in him find joy and peace in believing.
Let us wrap ourselves in the
warm garments of his promises,
and go forth to labours which befit the season,
for it were ill to be as the sluggard
who will not plough by reason of the cold;
for he shall beg in summer and have nothing.
C. H. SPURGEON
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Morning, December 1
THOU HAST MADE SUMMER AND WINTER
Psalm 74:17
My soul begin this wintry month with thy God.
The cold snows and the piercing winds all remind thee
that he keeps his covenant with day and night,
and tend to assure thee that he will also keep
that glorious covenant which he has made with thee
in the person of Christ Jesus.
He who is true to his Word in the revolutions of the
seasons of this poor sin-polluted world,
will not prove unfaithful in his dealings
with his own well-beloved Son.
Winter in the soul is by no means a comfortable season,
and if it be upon thee just now it will be very painful to thee:
but there is this comfort, namely, that the Lord makes it.
He sends the sharp blasts of adversity
to nip the buds of expectation:
he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes
over the once verdant meadows of our joy:
he casteth forth his ice like morsels
freezing the streams of our delight.
He does it all, he is the great Winter King,
and rules in the realms of frost,
and therefore thou canst not murmur.
Losses, crosses, heaviness, sickness,
poverty, and a thousand other ills,
are of the Lord's sending,
and come to us with wise design.
Frosts kill noxious insects,
and put a bound to raging diseases;
they break up the clods, and sweeten the soul.
O that such good results would
always follow our winters of affliction!
How we prize the fire just now!
how pleasant is its cheerful glow!
Let us in the same manner prize our Lord,
who is the constant source of warmth
and comfort in every time of trouble.
Let us draw nigh to him,
and in him find joy and peace in believing.
Let us wrap ourselves in the
warm garments of his promises,
and go forth to labours which befit the season,
for it were ill to be as the sluggard
who will not plough by reason of the cold;
for he shall beg in summer and have nothing.
C. H. SPURGEON
www.biblicalproportions.com
www.biblicalproportions.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=4810