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C.H. Spurgeon's Evening Devotional
Tuesday April 1, 2025
"It is time to seek the Lord."-Hosea 10:12
This month of April is said to derive its name from the Latin verb aperio, which signifies to open, because all the buds and blossoms are now opening, and we have arrived at the gates of the flowery year. Reader, if you are yet unsaved, may your heart, in accord with the universal awakening of nature, be opened to receive the Lord. Every blossoming flower warns you that it is time to seek the Lord; be not out of tune with nature, but let your heart bud and bloom with holy desires. Do you tell me that the warm blood of youth leaps in your veins? then, I entreat you, give your vigour to the Lord. It was my unspeakable happiness to be called in early youth, and I could fain praise the Lord every day for it. Salvation is priceless, let it come when it may, but oh! an early salvation has a double value in it. Young men and maidens, since you may perish ere you reach your prime, "It is time to seek the Lord." Ye who feel the first signs of decay, quicken your pace: that hollow cough, that hectic flush, are warnings which you must not trifle with; with you it is indeed time to seek the Lord. Did I observe a little grey mingled with your once luxurious tresses? Years are stealing on apace, and death is drawing nearer by hasty marches, let each return of spring arouse you to set your house in order. Dear reader, if you are now advanced in life, let me entreat and implore you to delay no longer. There is a day of grace for you now-be thankful for that, but it is a limited season and grows shorter every time that clock ticks. Here in this silent chamber, on this first night of another month, I speak to you as best I can by paper and ink, and from my inmost soul, as God's servant, I lay before you this warning, "It is time to seek the Lord." Slight not that work, it may be your last call from destruction, the final syllable from the lip of grace.
I'm working on quilt for my mom with the help of all the grandkids and great grandkids. This week while working on boardering the 30 + quilt squares I decided to chain them together since I was just sewing straight down all four sides that way I didn't have to stop and start after each side and I could just feed them through the sewing machine much quicker that way. Then at the end you have this long chain and mess that must be cut apart but it beats starting and stopping every six inches or so. Any way so I'm clipping along get all of the boarders on one side and start working on the second side get done with the second side and get ready to take them to the ironing board to clip and iron the seams. All of the sudden the boarders start falling off...right away I know what had happened. I hadn't been paying attention to my bobbin thread while pushing the squares through the sewing machine and I had just thought I was sewing on the boarders. So I started collecting the boarder pieces to see how far back I had to go and I couldn't believe it only 3 of them were sewn. The other 30+ I had just gone through the motions of sewing the boarders on and hadn't accomplished one thing, not what a seamstress wishes to see at the end.
Then later in the day while talking with my sister about my experience she said, "Have you heard the song, Going through the Motions?" of course I hadn't so she said, "Google it and listen to it. Your experience..It'll preach, sister."
So I found the youtube and listened. It got me to thinking about our Christian walk are we just ho hum and go through the motions daily, bored to the core. Are you just "Going through the motions?" or are we really excited about Christ, His work and living for Him?
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