The Blended Blog: It's Hexie Time...Yeah!

C.H. Spurgeon's Evening Devotional

Monday April 7, 2025

"Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, Thou God of my salvation; and my tongue shall sing aloud of Thy righteousness."-Psalm 51:14

    In this SOLEMN CONFESSION, it is pleasing to observe that David plainly names his sin. He does not call it manslaughter, nor speak of it as an imprudence by which an unfortunate accident occurred to a worthy man, but he calls it by its true name, bloodguiltiness. He did not actually kill the husband of Bathsheba; but still it was planned in David's heart that Uriah should be slain, and he was before the Lord his murderer. Learn in confession to be honest with God. Do not give fair names to foul sins; call them what you will, they will smell no sweeter. What God sees them to be, that do you labour to feel them to be; and with all openness of heart acknowledge their real character. Observe, that David was evidently oppressed with the heinousness of his sin. It is easy to use words, but it is difficult to feel their meaning. The fifty-first Psalm is the photograph of a contrite spirit. Let us seek after the like brokenness of heart; for however excellent our words may be, if our heart is not conscious of the hell-deservingness of sin, we cannot expect to find forgiveness.

    Our text has in it AN EARNEST PRAYER-it is addressed to the God of salvation. It is His prerogative to forgive; it is His very name and office to save those who seek His face. Better still, the text calls Him the God of my salvation. Yes, blessed be His name, while I am yet going to Him through Jesus' blood, I can rejoice in the God of my salvation.

    The psalmist ends with A COMMENDABLE VOW: if God will deliver him he will sing-nay, more, he will "sing aloud." Who can sing in any other style of such a mercy as this! But note the subject of the song-"THY RIGHTEOUSNESS." We must sing of the finished work of a precious Saviour; and he who knows most of forgiving love will sing the loudest.

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Friday, August 16, 2013

It's Hexie Time...Yeah!

Friday Night Sew_in update...Well, it was actually Friday Sew In as I used the whole day to sew since I had it all to my lil' ol' self. Projects were accomplished but can't show the final results as I have to wait until my day for the blog hop to reveal....which will be Aug. 28th so stay tune...

Here is some sneak little previews of what I did do...
Last Saturday I started playing with my new Hexie Ruler...this is some of what I did then...

First off today I played around with some of the decorative stitches on my sewing machine....

Then I finished cutting some half Hexies that I started last Saturday but didn't get completed....however, today I got it completed....

Then the sewing began...

Sorry you only get to see sneak previews I can't reveal them til the blog hop date...Sew you'll just have to come back and see the whole project on Aug. 28th...But I just wanted you to see that I did get some things accomplished in my sewing endeavors today.