C.H. Spurgeon's Evening Devotional
Thursday August 14, 2025

"I know their sorrows."-Exodus 3:7
    
    The child is cheered as he sings, "This my father knows"; and shall not we be comforted as we discern that our dear Friend and tender soul-husband knows all about us?
    
    1. He is the Physician, and if He knows all, there is no need that the patient should know. Hush, thou silly, fluttering heart, prying, peeping, and suspecting! What thou knowest not now, thou shalt know hereafter, and meanwhile Jesus, the beloved Physician, knows thy soul in adversities. Why need the patient analyze all the medicine, or estimate all the symptoms? This is the Physician's work, not mine; it is my business to trust, and His to prescribe. If He shall write His prescription in uncouth characters which I cannot read, I will not be uneasy on that account, but rely upon His unfailing skill to make all plain in the result, however mysterious in the working.
    
    2. He is the Master, and His knowledge is to serve us instead of our own; we are to obey, not to judge: "The servant knoweth not what his lord doeth." Shall the architect explain his plans to every hodman on the works? If he knows his own intent, is it not enough? The vessel on the wheel cannot guess to what pattern it shall be conformed, but if the potter understands his art, what matters the ignorance of the clay? My Lord must not be cross-questioned any more by one so ignorant as I am.
    
    3. He is the Head. All understanding centres there. What judgment has the arm? What comprehension has the foot? All the power to know lies in the head. Why should the member have a brain of its own when the head fulfils for it every intellectual office? Here, then, must the believer rest his comfort in sickness, not that he himself can see the end, but that Jesus knows all. Sweet Lord, be thou for ever eye, and soul, and head for us, and let us be content to know only what Thou choosest to reveal.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Sir Princess Petra's Mission by Diane Robinson

http://www.dianemaerobinson.com/



Sir Princess Petra's Mission is the third book in the award-winning Pen Pieyu Adventure series. Petra is a strong female lead and her story involves several interesting characters, such as her steed, Snarls. Snarls is actually not a horse but a dragon. He is the dragon Petra conquer in book #1 to win her knighthood for her ninth birthday. Petra's parent's the king and queen, do not like having a knight for a daughter. They keep changing the kingdom rule book in order to stop their daughter. At each turn, Petra has been a competent match, thus far keeping her knight status.

 Sir Princess Petra's Mission 
The Pen Pieyu Adventures (book #3)
by Diane Mae Robinson
Illustrations by Michael Bermundo
Paperback: 106 pages
  • Publisher: Tate Publishing (January 12, 2016)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 168187072X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1681870724
Sir Princess Petra has already attained her knighthood in the Kingdom of Pen Pieyu and her non-princess-like talent certificate from Talent School, neither of which pleases her father and mother, the king and queen. The king writes up more silly rules in the royal rule book to deter Sir Princess Petra from her knightly ways and useless talent, and turn her into a real princess once and for all. Will the king finally succeed with this newly written, ridiculous mission for Petra?
Diane Mae Robinson is the recipient of six international writing awards and one prestigous provincial award for her fantasy adventure children’s chapter book series, The Pen Pieyu Adventures. The author has created a world full of delightful, zany characters, while embracing the traditional values of kindness, understanding, and acceptance of others to create a story with the humorous essence of Shrek.
You're sure to be transported back into medieval times with this exciting story of knights and dragons.  Sir Princess Petra's Mission is a book that is bound to keep you and your young reader turning the pages.  The action moves quickly from page to page.  You won't want to stop in the middle.  Petra and her friends are bound to capture your heart as you read of her adventures and mishaps.  You'll be  laughing as you travel with them on their mission.  It is a very delightful read you won't want to miss.  I'm even considering using her book in my summer school reading classroom. 5 stars if you ask me. 

A copy of this book was provided to me exchange for my honest review by....
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