C.H. Spurgeon's Evening Devotional
Wednesday July 2, 2025

"Unto Thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if Thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit."-Psalm 28:1
    
    A cry is the natural expression of sorrow, and a suitable utterance when all other modes of appeal fail us; but the cry must be alone directed to the Lord, for to cry to man is to waste our entreaties upon the air. When we consider the readiness of the Lord to hear, and His ability to aid, we shall see good reason for directing all our appeals at once to the God of our salvation. It will be in vain to call to the rocks in the day of judgment, but our Rock attends to our cries.
    
    "Be not silent to me." Mere formalists may be content without answers to their prayers, but genuine suppliants cannot; they are not satisfied with the results of prayer itself in calming the mind and subduing the will-they must go further, and obtain actual replies from heaven, or they cannot rest; and those replies they long to receive at once, they dread even a little of God's silence. God's voice is often so terrible that it shakes the wilderness; but His silence is equally full of awe to an eager suppliant. When God seems to close His ear, we must not therefore close our mouths, but rather cry with more earnestness; for when our note grows shrill with eagerness and grief, He will not long deny us a hearing. What a dreadful case should we be in if the Lord should become for ever silent to our prayers? "Lest, if Thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit." Deprived of the God who answers prayer, we should be in a more pitiable plight than the dead in the grave, and should soon sink to the same level as the lost in hell. We must have answers to prayer: ours is an urgent case of dire necessity; surely the Lord will speak peace to our agitated minds, for He never can find it in His heart to permit His own elect to perish.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

RAINBOW OF FRIENSHIP by Joni Klein-Higger

Rainbow of FriendshipTitle: Rainbow of Friendship
Author: Joni Klein-Higger
Publisher: Guardian Angel Publishing
Pages: 16
Genre: Children’s Picture Book
“Is it safe to play with colors different than you?” This is the question a little red girl asks herself when she moves from the safe comforts of her little red town to Rainbow Row City. On her journey, she discovers that friendship comes in many colors, shapes and sizes.
Suggested age range for readers: 2-8

Charming, colorful and cheery are words to describe Joni Klein-Higger's book Rainbow of Friendship.  It's a wonderful story in rhyming meter to teach diversity.  Shape, size, color it doesn't matter we all need friends and that is what this book teaches.  Rainbow of Friendship is a book that will be enjoyed by preschool aged as well as the beginner reader.  You couldn't asked for a more needed book than one that teaches diversity, tolerance and friendship all in one. 

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