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C.H. Spurgeon's Morning Devotional
Wednesday August 20, 2025
"The sweet psalmist of Israel."-2 Samuel 23:1
Among all the saints whose lives are recorded in Holy Writ, David possesses an experience of the most striking, varied, and instructive character. In his history we meet with trials and temptations not to be discovered, as a whole, in other saints of ancient times, and hence he is all the more suggestive a type of our Lord. David knew the trials of all ranks and conditions of men. Kings have their troubles, and David wore a crown: the peasant has his cares, and David handled a shepherd's crook: the wanderer has many hardships, and David abode in the caves of Engedi: the captain has his difficulties, and David found the sons of Zeruiah too hard for him. The psalmist was also tried in his friends, his counsellor Ahithophel forsook him, "He that eateth bread with me, hath lifted up his heel against me." His worst foes were they of his own household: his children were his greatest affliction. The temptations of poverty and wealth, of honour and reproach, of health and weakness, all tried their power upon him. He had temptations from without to disturb his peace, and from within to mar his joy. David no sooner escaped from one trial than he fell into another; no sooner emerged from one season of despondency and alarm, than he was again brought into the lowest depths, and all God's waves and billows rolled over him. It is probably from this cause that David's psalms are so universally the delight of experienced Christians. Whatever our frame of mind, whether ecstasy or depression, David has exactly described our emotions. He was an able master of the human heart, because he had been tutored in the best of all schools-the school of heart-felt, personal experience. As we are instructed in the same school, as we grow matured in grace and in years, we increasingly appreciate David's psalms, and find them to be "green pastures." My soul, let David's experience cheer and counsel thee this day.
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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