The Blended Blog: Award time...

C.H. Spurgeon's Evening Devotional

Saturday June 7, 2025

"Be zealous."-Revelation 3:19

If you would see souls converted, if you would hear the cry that "the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord"; if you would place crowns upon the head of the Saviour, and His throne lifted high, then be filled with zeal. For, under God, the way of the world's conversion must be by the zeal of the church. Every grace shall do exploits, but this shall be first; prudence, knowledge, patience, and courage will follow in their places, but zeal must lead the van. It is not the extent of your knowledge, though that is useful; it is not the extent of your talent, though that is not to be despised; it is your zeal that shall do great exploits. This zeal is the fruit of the Holy Spirit: it draws its vital force from the continued operations of the Holy Ghost in the soul. If our inner life dwindles, if our heart beats slowly before God, we shall not know zeal; but if all be strong and vigorous within, then we cannot but feel a loving anxiety to see the kingdom of Christ come, and His will done on earth, even as it is in heaven. A deep sense of gratitude will nourish Christian zeal. Looking to the hole of the pit whence we were digged, we find abundant reason why we should spend and be spent for God. And zeal is also stimulated by the thought of the eternal future. It looks with tearful eyes down to the flames of hell, and it cannot slumber: it looks up with anxious gaze to the glories of heaven, and it cannot but bestir itself. It feels that time is short compared with the work to be done, and therefore it devotes all that it has to the cause of its Lord. And it is ever strengthened by the remembrance of Christ's example. He was clothed with zeal as with a cloak. How swift the chariot-wheels of duty went with Him! He knew no loitering by the way. Let us prove that we are His disciples by manifesting the same spirit of zeal.

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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Award time...

Been awarded this award from 4 the LOVE of BOOKS

According to the rules, I'm supposed to share seven things about myself, then pass the award on to fifteen blogs I've recently discovered.

1. I'm a pastor's wife
2. I love to sew
3. I love to do crafts
4. I have a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education
5. I went to a Christian School from 4-12 grades
6. I substitute taught in public schools before I had kidos
7. I am a homeschooled mom

Now the blogs I am going to give this too are:
Not Quite June Cleaver
Heartfelt and Homemade
Prairie Flower Farm
Mommy's Kitchen
Brimful Curiosities
The Gourmet Farm Girl
Dore's Diaries
Live Laugh Love and Bloggings
Luv my Two Girls
Mommy has to Work
Hip Mama's Place
Faithful Provisions
Mom's Most Wanted
Saving Cents with Sense
Piece of Me