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“There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God's Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord. . . .” ― Charles Spurgeon “Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.” ― C. H. Spurgeon “Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.” ― Charles Haddon Spurgeon “If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and unprayed for.” ― Charles Spurgeon “A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.” ― Charles Spurgeon “Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.” ― Charles Spurgeon “When your will is God's will, you will have your will.” ― Charles Spurgeon https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2876959.Charles_Haddon_Spurgeon (Philippians 2:13, KJV)    |
New Year's Hope of Israel's Day comes as Yom Kippur has blest. "All's Complete!" let us say, "Come, Messiah, o'er this test." When was Jesus really born? In cold to freeze or warmer days? Was He the Lamb so roughly shorn to cover Sin as Scripture says? The Virgin travels through the sky. The Lion safely, neatly borne to come for Man's long furtive cry as bearing Sin his spirit's worn. Could this of truth be when he came? Did August share This Loaf of Bread? And in September bore He blame, that New Year's Hope would rise from the dead? No human heart can know this truth, except the human, Christ, the Lord, Who labored unknown in His Youth, secured and hidden, God's Lone Word. So sing we Christmas music, now, and hie we oft the Garden Tomb. Before the manger ever bow, and make each heart His living room. We'd miss His Birth, if for a day we stop the celebration grand, and New Year's Hope would not display, if the Empty Tomb, we treat as bland. For Christmas and the Rising Morn must ever live in Christian hearts. He split the matrix and was born to give each longing soul a new start. The New Year's not a Hope at all without the tandem Days of Christ. His Birth and Resurrection's Call bespeaks the everlasting Price. For One exists not without Both. This Christmas needs the Risen Third, that when the days of silent growth were ended, Christ the distance blurred. Now, hand-in-hand these two births, known. The first one opened the virgin's womb, and past the day of darkness shown the second opened Death's laughing tomb. For Christmas without Rising's naught, and Rising without Christmas can't be. Salvation on the Cross He bought, the Empty Tomb shows the saved are free. by Jay O’Toole on September 9th, 2021 |
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