C.H. Spurgeon's Morning Devotional
Saturday May 31, 2025

"The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron."-2 Samuel 15:23
    
    David passed that gloomy brook when flying with his mourning company from his traitor son. The man after God's own heart was not exempt from trouble, nay, his life was full of it. He was both the Lord's Anointed, and the Lord's Afflicted. Why then should we expect to escape? At sorrow's gates the noblest of our race have waited with ashes on their heads, wherefore then should we complain as though some strange thing had happened unto us?
    
    The KING of kings himself was not favoured with a more cheerful or royal road. He passed over the filthy ditch of Kidron, through which the filth of Jerusalem flowed. God had one Son without sin, but not a single child without the rod. It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points like as we are. What is our Kidron this morning? Is it a faithless friend, a sad bereavement, a slanderous reproach, a dark foreboding? The King has passed over all these. Is it bodily pain, poverty, persecution, or contempt? Over each of these Kidrons the King has gone before us. "In all our afflictions He was afflicted." The idea of strangeness in our trials must be banished at once and for ever, for He who is the Head of all saints, knows by experience the grief which we think so peculiar. All the citizens of Zion must be free of the Honourable Company of Mourners, of which the Prince Immanuel is Head and Captain.
    
    Notwithstanding the abasement of David, he yet returned in triumph to his city, and David's Lord arose victorious from the grave; let us then be of good courage, for we also shall win the day. We shall yet with joy draw water out of the wells of salvation, though now for a season we have to pass by the noxious streams of sin and sorrow. Courage, soldiers of the Cross, the King himself triumphed after going over Kidron, and so shall you.
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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Little Accomplished, but MUCH Hope!




Now for our Friday Night Sew-In Reprot. DD got more accomplished than mom. She was able to put finishing touches on her cross-stitch: outline and beads. Now, it's ready to be turned into a journal cover for Grandma. Another day's project. We have to get the material for the rest of the cover. She also helped mom work on skirt for her.

Mom on the other hand had trouble. I started a tier skirt for dd to take to camp at the end of July. Hopefully, we'll get it completed. One thing that went wrong is sewing machine had an attitude; it didn't like the thin crepe fabric. My sewing machine is so temperamental. You have to take it apart each time and clean it (and I mean take it apart every time), you have to have the thread pulled just right when you thread it, you have to use the right needle # (according to fabric weight) and it doesn't like sewing only 1 layer of fabric (bad news, as to make gather stitches you only use one layer of material). We did lots of ripping out last night because the bobbin thread wanted to ball up. Oops can't pull gather threads when you have knots in it.

Next problem, now I have to find another material to make one more tier for her skirt. The three tiers aren't long enough. Ugh! But it isn't all sewn together so we don't have to tear it apart to add new tier. I just laid it together for the picture. I bought this material from Wal-Mart, I'm hoping that Jo-Ann's fabric which is similar pattern will work with this material. If it does it will be super cool. They have a similar crepe material with much smaller daisies than what I have in the second tier in pic above. So I'll make tier 2 with the small daisies and tier three will be the larger daisies.

Mom made some progress, but there was lots of ripping out because the sewing machine had an attitude. I'd love a new sewing machine. I've had problems with this one since day one (over 25 years ago) just have put up with it, but it can be very trying at times. Unfortunately, I think it was the make and model of Singer that was bad. It has been one big LEMON; I've had to deal with.

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