Spurgeon on God's love.

Divine love is rendered conspicuous when it shines in the midst of judgments. Fair is that lone star which smiles through the rifts of the thunder clouds; bright is the oasis which blooms in the wilderness of sand; so fair and so bright is love in the midst of wrath.  -Charles Spurgeon

Verse of the Day, July 5, 2023

 One day in early summer I walked past a beautiful meadow. The grass was as soft and thick and fine as an immense green Oriental rug. In one corner stood a fine old tree, a sanctuary for numberless wild birds; the crisp, sweet air was full of their happy songs. Two cows lay in the shade, the very picture of content. Down by the roadside the saucy dandelion mingled his gold with the royal purple of the wild violet. I leaned against the fence for a long time, feasting my hungry eyes, and thinking in my soul that God never made a fairer spot than my lovely meadow.

-Samuel Rutherford

so much more, his own beloved children.

To paraphrase the KJV, "if God so clothe even the lillies of the field, how much more then, his own beloved children..."

God is good and shows care to his creation, his children.

bruising the heel and "the heart is deceitful".

Today's Bible Gateway verse of the day was from Jeremiah, saying "the heart is deceitful". Only with God's grace could we hope to break the curse of Original Sin, and put Satan under our heel. 

As the bible says, the serpent will "bruise our heel", only if we stomp on him that hard! And do it in faith!

Happy Sunday everyone.

 

Spurgeon on the Christian people's sense of peace of mind.

Blessed is the fact that Christians can rejoice even in the deepest distress; although trouble may surround them, they still sing; and, like many birds, they sing best in their cages. The waves may roll over them, but their souls soon rise to the surface and see the light of God's countenance; they have a buoyancy about them which keeps their head always above the water, and helps them to sing amid the tempest, "God is with me still."  

-Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Verse of the Day, July 2, 2023

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

-Jeremiah 17

Verse of the Day, July 1, 2023

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.  

-Romans 12, KJV