The Blended Blog: Daybook Time

C.H. Spurgeon's Morning Devotional

Monday May 19, 2025

"I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth."-Ecclesiastes 10:7

    Upstarts frequently usurp the highest places, while the truly great pine in obscurity. This is a riddle in providence whose solution will one day gladden the hearts of the upright; but it is so common a fact, that none of us should murmur if it should fall to our own lot. When our Lord was upon earth, although He is the Prince of the kings of the earth, yet He walked the footpath of weariness and service as the Servant of servants: what wonder is it if His followers, who are princes of the blood, should also be looked down upon as inferior and contemptible persons? The world is upside down, and therefore, the first are last and the last first. See how the servile sons of Satan lord it in the earth! What a high horse they ride! How they lift up their horn on high! Haman is in the court, while Mordecai sits in the gate; David wanders on the mountains, while Saul reigns in state; Elijah is complaining in the cave while Jezebel is boasting in the palace; yet who would wish to take the places of the proud rebels? and who, on the other hand, might not envy the despised saints? When the wheel turns, those who are lowest rise, and the highest sink. Patience, then, believer, eternity will right the wrongs of time.

    Let us not fall into the error of letting our passions and carnal appetites ride in triumph, while our nobler powers walk in the dust. Grace must reign as a prince, and make the members of the body instruments of righteousness. The Holy Spirit loves order, and He therefore sets our powers and faculties in due rank and place, giving the highest room to those spiritual faculties which link us with the great King; let us not disturb the divine arrangement, but ask for grace that we may keep under our body and bring it into subjection. We were not new created to allow our passions to rule over us, but that we, as kings, may reign in Christ Jesus over the triple kingdom of spirit, soul, and body, to the glory of God the Father.

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Monday, May 20, 2013

Daybook Time

Outside my window...I'm watching Goldfinch flit about in the rain

I am thinking…that I need to study for my teacher's exam

I am thankful for...yellow specks that are flitting about in my yard today

From the kitchen…all is quiet.

I am wearing…green culottes with a green/blue stripped Paris Sport club shirt

I am creating…quilt

I am going…to Kohls a little later today

I am reading...Love at any Cost by Julie Lessman

I am hoping…to get to studying as soon as I press publish on this post

I am hearing...the wind blowing with the bird's song

Around the house…it is pretty much quiet here. daughter and hubby at work

One of my favorite things...sun tea

A few plans for the rest of the week…study, study study

Photo(s) for today...watching these guys play in the rain

1 comment:

AnonymousMay 21, 2013 at 10:48 AM
This is my first visit to your home and I enjoyed it very much. I also have a book review blog called For the love of books! Isn't that crazy?! You are one busy lady! All the reading, study time, blog posts, etc... :) Hope your teacher's exam goes well. In my opinion (and it is only mine) this country is in need of great teachers!
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