C.H. Spurgeon's Morning Devotional
Friday June 20, 2025

"For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth."-Amos 9:9
    
    Every sifting comes by divine command and permission. Satan must ask leave before he can lay a finger upon Job. Nay, more, in some sense our siftings are directly the work of heaven, for the text says, "I will sift the house of Israel." Satan, like a drudge, may hold the sieve, hoping to destroy the corn; but the overruling hand of the Master is accomplishing the purity of the grain by the very process which the enemy intended to be destructive. Precious, but much sifted corn of the Lord's floor, be comforted by the blessed fact that the Lord directeth both flail and sieve to His own glory, and to thine eternal profit.
    
    The Lord Jesus will surely use the fan which is in His hand, and will divide the precious from the vile. All are not Israel that are of Israel; the heap on the barn floor is not clean provender, and hence the winnowing process must be performed. In the sieve true weight alone has power. Husks and chaff being devoid of substance must fly before the wind, and only solid corn will remain.
    
    Observe the complete safety of the Lord's wheat; even the least grain has a promise of preservation. God Himself sifts, and therefore it is stern and terrible work; He sifts them in all places, "among all nations"; He sifts them in the most effectual manner, "like as corn is sifted in a sieve"; and yet for all this, not the smallest, lightest, or most shrivelled grain, is permitted to fall to the ground. Every individual believer is precious in the sight of the Lord, a shepherd would not lose one sheep, nor a jeweller one diamond, nor a mother one child, nor a man one limb of his body, nor will the Lord lose one of His redeemed people. However little we may be, if we are the Lord's, we may rejoice that we are preserved in Christ Jesus.
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Monday, August 26, 2013

Time for Around the Block weekend update....

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Sorry for the station delay....life can get busy at times and this weekend I was busy and just didn't find time to update you with the FNBP sewing results...sew here they are

First up was fixing an error in what I sewed on Thursday night....



can you see what I had to fix???  sorry can't reveal the whole project as my hexie day is scheduled for Wednesday sew come back then to see the whole project.


also cut out some other cute items for sewing up check back for full details...still in planning stages

Then I pulled out my WIP and started toward getting more accomplished...


 got the lettering ironed down and started the appliquing of the letters.

These are squares to add to my mom's quilt I'm making her with help from Grandkids and Great-Grandkids...If you'd like to see more items from this quilt you may visit this link showing more squares in this quilt.

hop in progress now....


Up coming hop...




WIPs on Wednesdays

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