C.H. Spurgeon's Morning Devotional
Wednesday August 20, 2025

"The sweet psalmist of Israel."-2 Samuel 23:1
    
    Among all the saints whose lives are recorded in Holy Writ, David possesses an experience of the most striking, varied, and instructive character. In his history we meet with trials and temptations not to be discovered, as a whole, in other saints of ancient times, and hence he is all the more suggestive a type of our Lord. David knew the trials of all ranks and conditions of men. Kings have their troubles, and David wore a crown: the peasant has his cares, and David handled a shepherd's crook: the wanderer has many hardships, and David abode in the caves of Engedi: the captain has his difficulties, and David found the sons of Zeruiah too hard for him. The psalmist was also tried in his friends, his counsellor Ahithophel forsook him, "He that eateth bread with me, hath lifted up his heel against me." His worst foes were they of his own household: his children were his greatest affliction. The temptations of poverty and wealth, of honour and reproach, of health and weakness, all tried their power upon him. He had temptations from without to disturb his peace, and from within to mar his joy. David no sooner escaped from one trial than he fell into another; no sooner emerged from one season of despondency and alarm, than he was again brought into the lowest depths, and all God's waves and billows rolled over him. It is probably from this cause that David's psalms are so universally the delight of experienced Christians. Whatever our frame of mind, whether ecstasy or depression, David has exactly described our emotions. He was an able master of the human heart, because he had been tutored in the best of all schools-the school of heart-felt, personal experience. As we are instructed in the same school, as we grow matured in grace and in years, we increasingly appreciate David's psalms, and find them to be "green pastures." My soul, let David's experience cheer and counsel thee this day.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Quick and Easy Chow Mein


My hubby doesn't cook much but this is one recipe that he introduced to the family.  It is pretty easy.

1.  brown 1 lb. of hamburger, drain off grease

2.  stir in 1 small onion and 2 ribs of celery.  cook briefly 3-5 min.  I like the celery to have a crunch it seems to add to the dish

3. add 1 10 oz. can each of tomato and cream of celery soup.  Heat through but don't boil.

4.  hubby stirs in chow mein noodles, but if you don't eat all they get soggy so you may serve the with the sauce and let people put the sauce over the noodles on their plate.  either way works.  I like the crunch of the noodles as well as the celery.  left over soggy noodles not good, but I have eaten that way too.



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