The Blended Blog: AF on a blustery day

C.H. Spurgeon's Morning Devotional

Saturday April 5, 2025

"On Him they laid the cross, that He might bear it after Jesus."-Luke 23:26

    We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of the work of the Church throughout all generations; she is the cross-bearer after Jesus. Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. Christ exempts you from sin, but not from sorrow. Remember that, and expect to suffer. But let us comfort ourselves with this thought, that in our case, as in Simon's, it is not our cross, but Christ's cross which we carry. When you are molested for your piety; when your religion brings the trial of cruel mockings upon you, then remember it is not your cross, it is Christ's cross; and how delightful is it to carry the cross of our Lord Jesus!

    You carry the cross after Him. You have blessed company; your path is marked with the footprints of your Lord. The mark of His blood-red shoulder is upon that heavy burden. 'Tis His cross, and He goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. Take up your cross daily, and follow Him.

    Do not forget, also, that you bear this cross in partnership. It is the opinion of some that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the whole of it. That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier part, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter end. Certainly it is so with you; you do but carry the light end of the cross, Christ bore the heavier end.

    And remember, though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it gave him lasting honour. Even so the cross we carry is only for a little while at most, and then we shall receive the crown, the glory. Surely we should love the cross, and, instead of shrinking from it, count it very dear, when it works out for us "a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory."

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Friday, January 11, 2013

AF on a blustery day

Time for another Aloha Friday. and the question is?

What is currently on your reading list?

Oh, my not a good question to ask we wold be here far into the weekend if I listed every book on my to be read pile. However, today is a nice wintery day to stay curled up with a good book.

I'm currently reading....American Patriots by Rick Santorum

"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it come only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again." ~ Ronald Reagan

~taken from American Patriots: Answering the Call to Freedom by Rick Santorum

Oh what a book. Americans need to WAKE-UP is all I have to say. Time to get a backbone.