C.H. Spurgeon's Evening Devotional
Wednesday June 18, 2025

"I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse."-Song of Solomon 5:1
    
    The heart of the believer is Christ's garden. He bought it with His precious blood, and He enters it and claims it as His own. A garden implies separation. It is not the open common; it is not a wilderness; it is walled around, or hedged in. Would that we could see the wall of separation between the church and the world made broader and stronger. It makes one sad to hear Christians saying, "Well, there is no harm in this; there is no harm in that," thus getting as near to the world as possible. Grace is at a low ebb in that soul which can even raise the question of how far it may go in worldly conformity. A garden is a place of beauty, it far surpasses the wild uncultivated lands. The genuine Christian must seek to be more excellent in his life than the best moralist, because Christ's garden ought to produce the best flowers in all the world. Even the best is poor compared with Christ's deservings; let us not put Him off with withering and dwarf plants. The rarest, richest, choicest lilies and roses ought to bloom in the place which Jesus calls His own. The garden is a place of growth. The saints are not to remain undeveloped, always mere buds and blossoms. We should grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Growth should be rapid where Jesus is the Husbandman, and the Holy Spirit the dew from above. A garden is a place of retirement. So the Lord Jesus Christ would have us reserve our souls as a place in which He can manifest Himself, as He doth not unto the world. O that Christians were more retired, that they kept their hearts more closely shut up for Christ! We often worry and trouble ourselves, like Martha, with much serving, so that we have not the room for Christ that Mary had, and do not sit at His feet as we should. The Lord grant the sweet showers of His grace to water His garden this day.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Queen Vernita Visits Gator Country by Dawn Menge


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The Queen is coming!  The Queen is coming!  Queen Vernita visits Gator Country and boy is it a grand visit.  In her book, Dawn Menge, takes the reader on a year long visit to different places in the Deep South better know as "Gator Country".  In Queen Vernita Visits Gator Country, the reader will learn about the plantation, bayou and even some jazz tradition.  It's an exciting adventure and my the learning experience:  rich culture, music, food and history all rolled into one book.   Each month Queen Vernita spends with a different friend learning all she can about gators, plants and even African European music is thrown into the mix.  Readers will learn new and fascinating facts all along the way.  So if you have a reader that loves learning and is curious about people, animals, and nature all around this would be an exciting book to read.

Visit Outskirts Press Publishing for more information concerning this book.

About the book:
Queen Vernita Visits Gator Country by Dawn Menge
ISBN: 978-1-4787-2245-8
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Date of publish: April 2014
Pages: 31
About the Author:
Dawn Menge is the author of the Queen Vernita educational series. Her series has won 19 literary awards. Queen Vernita’s adventures include: Queen Vernita’s Visitors, Queen Vernita Visits the Blue Ice Mountains, Queen Vernita Meets Sir HeathyBean, and Queen Vernita Explores the Oceaneer’s Coastline.

A copy of this book was provided by Bostick Communications in exchange for my honest review.

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