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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!
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.
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