C.H. Spurgeon's Evening Devotional
Wednesday May 28, 2025

"This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope."-Lamentations 3:21
    
    Memory is frequently the bondslave of despondency. Despairing minds call to remembrance every dark foreboding in the past, and dilate upon every gloomy feature in the present; thus memory, clothed in sackcloth, presents to the mind a cup of mingled gall and wormwood. There is, however, no necessity for this. Wisdom can readily transform memory into an angel of comfort. That same recollection which in its left hand brings so many gloomy omens, may be trained to bear in its right a wealth of hopeful signs. She need not wear a crown of iron, she may encircle her brow with a fillet of gold, all spangled with stars. Thus it was in Jeremiah's experience: in the previous verse memory had brought him to deep humiliation of soul: "My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me"; and now this same memory restored him to life and comfort. "This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope." Like a two-edged sword, his memory first killed his pride with one edge, and then slew his despair with the other. As a general principle, if we would exercise our memories more wisely, we might, in our very darkest distress, strike a match which would instantaneously kindle the lamp of comfort. There is no need for God to create a new thing upon the earth in order to restore believers to joy; if they would prayerfully rake the ashes of the past, they would find light for the present; and if they would turn to the book of truth and the throne of grace, their candle would soon shine as aforetime. Be it ours to remember the lovingkindness of the Lord, and to rehearse His deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection which is so richly illuminated with memorials of mercy, and we shall soon be happy. Thus memory may be, as Coleridge calls it, "the bosom-spring of joy," and when the Divine Comforter bends it to His service, it may be chief among earthly comforters.
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Saturday, January 7, 2012

The year When Jesus Comes



For the beginning the New Year I thought I'd share this song lyrics.  It is one of my favorite songs.  You may listen to it here.  However, ever I don't believe it is the Year that Jesus will come.  Why???  Because the Bible tells us he'll come when we least expect it as a thief in the night I Thessolonians 5:2 ~ "For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night."
and everyone is expecting the end of the world in 2012.  Besides the world won't end as we know it when he comes back.  There will be great tribulation before the world ultimately ends.  Revelation in the Bible is a good book to study for the last days' account.  Anyway, I still love this song it gives the listeners something to think about.



This Could be the Year when Jesus Comes 
You may listen to it here.
CHORUS
What if this could be the year when Jesus comes
The year that we've been waiting for so long
We'd have so little time to7get our lost world won
If this could be the year when Jesus comes
 
VERSE 1
Years have come and years have gone
Since Jesus went away
Leaving us the promise that He'd come again someday
And…
 
CHORUS
What if this could be the day when Jesus comes
The day that we've been waiting for so long
We'd have so little time to get our lost world won
If this could be the day when Jesus comes
 
VERSE 2
He will comes so quickly in the twinkling of an eye
In a moment we think not
He'll split the eastern sky
And…
 
CHORUS
What if this could be the moment when Jesus comes
The moment that we've been waiting for so long
We'd have no time, no time to get our lost world won
If this could be the moment when Jesus comes
You may listen to it here.

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