The Blended Blog: Looking like Christmas OR NOT!

C.H. Spurgeon's Morning Devotional

Wednesday May 28, 2025

"Whom He justified, them He also glorified."-Romans 8:30

    Here is a precious truth for thee, believer. Thou mayest be poor, or in suffering, or unknown, but for thine encouragement take a review of thy "calling" and the consequences that flow from it, and especially that blessed result here spoken of. As surely as thou art God's child today, so surely shall all thy trials soon be at an end, and thou shalt be rich to all the intents of bliss. Wait awhile, and that weary head shall wear the crown of glory, and that hand of labour shall grasp the palm-branch of victory. Lament not thy troubles, but rather rejoice that ere long thou wilt be where "there shall be neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain." The chariots of fire are at thy door, and a moment will suffice to bear thee to the glorified. The everlasting song is almost on thy lip. The portals of heaven stand open for thee. Think not that thou canst fail of entering into rest. If He hath called thee, nothing can divide thee from His love. Distress cannot sever the bond; the fire of persecution cannot burn the link; the hammer of hell cannot break the chain. Thou art secure; that voice which called thee at first, shall call thee yet again from earth to heaven, from death's dark gloom to immortality's unuttered splendours. Rest assured, the heart of Him who has justified thee beats with infinite love towards thee. Thou shalt soon be with the glorified, where thy portion is; thou art only waiting here to be made meet for the inheritance, and that done, the wings of angels shall waft thee far away, to the mount of peace, and joy, and blessedness, where,

    "Far from a world of grief and sin,
    With God eternally shut in,"

    thou shalt rest for ever and ever.

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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Looking like Christmas OR NOT!

It's beginning to Look a LOT LIKE CHRISTmas

OR NOT!

Well on the inside, but not the outside. I've lived in ND for about 23 years and this is just unreal to have brown this close to Christmas. There is absolutely NO snow anywhere and NONE in the forecast between now and Sunday. Even growing up in MI I can't say there was a brown Christmas. My teen daughter made comment a few weeks back that she'd just like to once experience a brown Christmas and I think she is going to get that wish. However, inside the house it Looks Like CHRISTmas!