 |
| Image by nosha on Flickr under Creative Commons License. |
—Job 14:1.
IT may be of great service to us, before we fall asleep, to remember this mournful fact, for it may lead us to set loose by earthly things.
There is nothing very pleasant in the recollection that we are not above the shafts of adversity, but it may humble us and prevent our boasting like the Psalmist in our morning's portion.
"My mountain standeth firm: I shall never be moved."
It may stay us from taking too deep root in this soil from which we are so soon to be transplanted into the heavenly garden. Let us recollect the frail tenure upon which we hold our temporal mercies.
If we would remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we should not be so ready to build our nests in them. We should love, but we should love with the love which expects death, and which reckons upon separations.
Our dear relations are but loaned to us, and the hour when we must return them to the lender's hand may be even at the door. The like is certainly true of our worldly goods. Do not riches take to themselves wings and fly away? Our health is equally precarious.
Frail flowers of the field, we must not reckon upon blooming for ever. There is a time appointed for weakness and sickness, when we shall have to glorify God by suffering, and not by earnest activity.
There is no single point in which we can hope to escape from the sharp arrows of affliction; out of our few days there is not one secure from sorrow. Man's life is a cask full of bitter wine; he who looks for joy in it had better seek for honey in an ocean of brine.
Beloved reader, set not your affections upon things of earth: but seek those things which are above, for here the moth devoureth, and the thief breaketh through, but there all joys are perpetual and eternal.
The path of trouble is the way home.
Lord, make this thought a pillow for many a weary head!
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Reflection and inspiration from the "Prince of Preachers," Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
Copyright Statement, This resource was produced before 1923 and therefore is considered in the
"Public Domain".
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
I did many changes in all blogs in order to accommodate BIGGER pictures for your enjoyment and I'm still working on making it better, You can see only one post at the time, please go to the bottom and look for the "Blog Archive", there is many more, sometimes I do many during the day as the time permits.
GOD BLESS YOU !!!
DO YOU ENJOY THIS BLOG ?
If you like to visit my others blogs, just copy the link and put it in to your browser or highlight it and do a right click to go the the address ( clicking is not working sorry)...
ENGLISH:
http://mightywarrior-mightywarrior.blogspot.
http://jesusmightywarrior.blogspot.
SPANISH:
http://poderosoguerrerodejesus.blogspot..
TRANSLATORS AVAILABLE FOR ALL LANGUAGES..
TRADUCTOR AL ESPAÑOL Y OTROS LENGUAJES...
Don't forget to spread The Word by sharing today's passage with friends.
Have a blessed day full of peace, love and happiness...
Please share with your family and friends using small envelope (E-mail) next to a pencil, under my name at the bottom of post or use the share link....
***MAY THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD BE WITH YOU
AND GOD BLESS YOUR DAY !!!
Copyright Policy:
We respect copyright laws and are committed to remove any copyright infringing material from our website. If you find any content on our website which infringes your copyrighted work, please contact us, we’ll be happy to verify and remove such content. Please do provide us the following details: 1) Your name, E-mail Address. 2) Location (URLs) of your copyrighted work on your website. 3) Location (URLs) of your copyrighted work on our website.
