The Blended Blog: Blog changes....coming this fall

C.H. Spurgeon's Evening Devotional

Thursday June 19, 2025

"My Beloved is mine, and I am His: He feedeth among the lilies. Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my Beloved, and be Thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether."-Song of Solomon 2:16, 17

    Surely if there be a happy verse in the Bible it is this-"My Beloved is mine, and I am His." So peaceful, so full of assurance, so overrunning with happiness and contentment is it, that it might well have been written by the same hand which penned the twenty-third Psalm. Yet though the prospect is exceeding fair and lovely-earth cannot show its superior-it is not entirely a sunlit landscape. There is a cloud in the sky which casts a shadow over the scene. Listen, "Until the day break, and the shadows flee away."

    There is a word, too, about the "mountains of Bether," or, "the mountains of division," and to our love, anything like division is bitterness. Beloved, this may be your present state of mind; you do not doubt your salvation; you know that Christ is yours, but you are not feasting with Him. You understand your vital interest in Him, so that you have no shadow of a doubt of your being His, and of His being yours, but still His left hand is not under your head, nor doth His right hand embrace you. A shade of sadness is cast over your heart, perhaps by affliction, certainly by the temporary absence of your Lord, so even while exclaiming, "I am His," you are forced to take to your knees, and to pray, "Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my Beloved."

    "Where is He?" asks the soul. And the answer comes, "He feedeth among the lilies." If we would find Christ, we must get into communion with His people, we must come to the ordinances with His saints. Oh, for an evening glimpse of Him! Oh, to sup with Him to-night!

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Friday, June 20, 2014

Blog changes....coming this fall

July and August changes are coming...Over the summer I'm going to blend together my two blogs into one. The new name will be The Blended Blog....where books, sewing, recipes crafts, and life just happens. I have been debating this merger since last fall. Now that I've worked pretty much full time for 10 months I'm finding it hard to keep both blogs going. Not much will change. I'll still have book reviews, my life happenings (as I can post them), giveaways, and everything I've had on both blogs. I'm just merging the information from my two blogs 4 the LOVE of BOOKS and Scraps of Life (this site) into one.. I do have some commitments to this URL so I need to keep them, so I'll be posting to this blog and the other one throughout the summer; however, in Sept. the merger will be fully completed at:

The Blended Blog