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C.H. Spurgeon's Evening Devotional
Sunday July 6, 2025
"How many are mine iniquities and sins?"-Job 13:23
Have you ever really weighed and considered how great the sin of God's people is? Think how heinous is your own transgression, and you will find that not only does a sin here and there tower up like an alp, but that your iniquities are heaped upon each other, as in the old fable of the giants who piled Pelian upon Ossa, mountain upon mountain. What an aggregate of sin there is in the life of one of the most sanctified of God's children! Attempt to multiply this, the sin of one only, by the multitude of the redeemed, "a number which no man can number," and you will have some conception of the great mass of the guilt of the people for whom Jesus shed His blood. But we arrive at a more adequate idea of the magnitude of sin by the greatness of the remedy provided. It is the blood of Jesus Christ, God's only and well-beloved Son. God's Son! Angels cast their crowns before Him! All the choral symphonies of heaven surround His glorious throne. "God over all, blessed for ever. Amen." And yet He takes upon Himself the form of a servant, and is scourged and pierced, bruised and torn, and at last slain; since nothing but the blood of the incarnate Son of God could make atonement for our offences. No human mind can adequately estimate the infinite value of the divine sacrifice, for great as is the sin of God's people, the atonement which takes it away is immeasurably greater. Therefore, the believer, even when sin rolls like a black flood, and the remembrance of the past is bitter, can yet stand before the blazing throne of the great and holy God, and cry, "Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died; yea rather, that hath risen again." While the recollection of his sin fills him with shame and sorrow, he at the same time makes it a foil to show the brightness of mercy-guilt is the dark night in which the fair star of divine love shines with serene splendour.
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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