C.H. Spurgeon's Evening Devotional
Sunday July 6, 2025

"How many are mine iniquities and sins?"-Job 13:23
    
    Have you ever really weighed and considered how great the sin of God's people is? Think how heinous is your own transgression, and you will find that not only does a sin here and there tower up like an alp, but that your iniquities are heaped upon each other, as in the old fable of the giants who piled Pelian upon Ossa, mountain upon mountain. What an aggregate of sin there is in the life of one of the most sanctified of God's children! Attempt to multiply this, the sin of one only, by the multitude of the redeemed, "a number which no man can number," and you will have some conception of the great mass of the guilt of the people for whom Jesus shed His blood. But we arrive at a more adequate idea of the magnitude of sin by the greatness of the remedy provided. It is the blood of Jesus Christ, God's only and well-beloved Son. God's Son! Angels cast their crowns before Him! All the choral symphonies of heaven surround His glorious throne. "God over all, blessed for ever. Amen." And yet He takes upon Himself the form of a servant, and is scourged and pierced, bruised and torn, and at last slain; since nothing but the blood of the incarnate Son of God could make atonement for our offences. No human mind can adequately estimate the infinite value of the divine sacrifice, for great as is the sin of God's people, the atonement which takes it away is immeasurably greater. Therefore, the believer, even when sin rolls like a black flood, and the remembrance of the past is bitter, can yet stand before the blazing throne of the great and holy God, and cry, "Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died; yea rather, that hath risen again." While the recollection of his sin fills him with shame and sorrow, he at the same time makes it a foil to show the brightness of mercy-guilt is the dark night in which the fair star of divine love shines with serene splendour.
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Friday, February 18, 2011

FNS-Flop


Well, the intents were good, but very little was accomplished in my February sew-in.  Heidi and Bobbie host a monthly sew-in.  I tried and did get some sewing in but just not what was planned.  Best laid plans went hay-wire to say the least.  First off, I lost my sewing partner.  My dd was called in to work so she wasn't able to sew.  So I set down and started to sew on my cross-stitch project around 4 pm...
I got out all the supplies....

and started getting things ready to dig in...  cutting my material, finding the center and finding the center of pattern....


cool.  How hard can it be. really.  I hadn't done a counted cross-stitch in awhile I was really clipping along...


but as I was stitching I'm picturing this little project that my mom has given to me in my head.  Yep, it is kind of a made up thing.  I found a patter to go with the saying she wanted.  Previously, I laid out the saying on graph paper and got it all counted out.  Bingo ready to go.....um, excuse me.... Now, I'm getting a funny filling....  Yep, you guessed it.  I cut the material the wrong size.   So guess what.  I had to cut a new piece of material and start again....  ARGH!  By this time I'd spent 2 hours on the project. And daughters call and say, "Mom we're off work bring a movie and pizza do you have chips?  So much for sewing....
I did do some stitching while watching the movie after getting the material situation all figured out.  Well, I hope I figured it out.  So here is what I got accomplished....


Here is the pattern ...

after I got started on the correct path I hope.  I told my daughter, "I should have done this on a light blue material..  She said, "Does that mean you are starting over again?"  I said, "Nope".  We'll just have a white sky or I'll cross-stitch the sky blue.  I'm not starting over baby.... Yep, I'm a little rusty.  I haven't cross-stitched in about 6 months.  Hopefully next session will be a little more productive.  How was your FNSi?


Before you go thought I'd share a giveaway I found.  You'll have to head over to Vignette in Stitches' Blog to enter. 




How about this giveaway.  I found another sewing related giveaway.  Check it out at Feathers in the Nest blog

1 comment:

  1. Understand your FNSI flop ! maybe next month :-)) Thank you for sharing the Vignette Blog giveaway :-)
    Happy stitching, P

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