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C.H. Spurgeon's Evening Devotional
Wednesday June 4, 2025
"Received up into glory."-1 Timothy 3:16
We have seen our well-beloved Lord in the days of His flesh, humiliated and sore vexed; for He was "despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief." He whose brightness is as the morning, wore the sackcloth of sorrow as His daily dress: shame was His mantle, and reproach was His vesture. Yet now, inasmuch as He has triumphed over all the powers of darkness upon the bloody tree, our faith beholds our King returning with dyed garments from Edom, robed in the splendour of victory. How glorious must He have been in the eyes of seraphs, when a cloud received Him out of mortal sight, and He ascended up to heaven! Now He wears the glory which He had with God or ever the earth was, and yet another glory above all-that which He has well earned in the fight against sin, death, and hell. As victor He wears the illustrious crown. Hark how the song swells high! It is a new and sweeter song: "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, for He hath redeemed us unto God by His blood!" He wears the glory of an Intercessor who can never fail, of a Prince who can never be defeated, of a Conqueror who has vanquished every foe, of a Lord who has the heart's allegiance of every subject. Jesus wears all the glory which the pomp of heaven can bestow upon Him, which ten thousand times ten thousand angels can minister to Him. You cannot with your utmost stretch of imagination conceive His exceeding greatness; yet there will be a further revelation of it when He shall descend from heaven in great power, with all the holy angels-"Then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory." Oh, the splendour of that glory! It will ravish His people's hearts. Nor is this the close, for eternity shall sound His praise, "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever!" Reader, if you would joy in Christ's glory hereafter, He must be glorious in your sight now. Is He so?
In Sony
Pictures Animation's The Star, a small but brave donkey named Bo yearns for
a life
beyond his daily grind at the village mill. One day he finds the courage to
break
free,
and finally goes on the adventure of his dreams. On his journey, he teams up
with
Ruth, a
loveable sheep who has lost her flock and Dave, a dove with lofty aspirations.
Along
with three wisecracking camels and some eccentric stable animals, Bo and his
new
friends follow the Star and become unlikely heroes in the greatest story ever
told
-the
first Christmas.
I'm so excited to see this movie. The trailers and promotion items I'm seeing and reading sound absolutely wonderful. It's the Christmas story from the eyes of the animals. Yep, talking animals. Kids of all ages are going to love this movie. Oprah Winfrey is one of the animal voices. Be sure to visit the web site to learn more. Get the scoop before the movie comes out. There are all kinds of activities to do: download them for hours of fun activities. There's posters, cards and many other items to download. There is even an animated coloring book. I had fun playing around with that. The resource page is a good page to look at there many resources for this movie...books you can buy, the sound track and other things. Every time I go on their site I find something new and interesting.
