DECEMBER 30

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES

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2 Corinthians 4:17

“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,”

Matthew 16:27

“For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works.”

Mark 13:26

“Then they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.”

Deuteronomy 13:3

“…. the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.”

James 1:2-5

“My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,  knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.  But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.  If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.”

1 Corinthians 10:13

“No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.”

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This month we will read choices from Charles Spurgeon’s (known affectionately as the “prince of preachers”)  devotional, “Beside Still Waters.”   It’s no secret that this world system is getting more evil by the day.  We have to stand strong in the Lord and look to Him more than ever to get through, and to be guided through, what is in the future……..known and allowed  by Him alone…..as well as whatever personal things we are experiencing in our lives.

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PASTOR SPURGEON:

It seems to me that the trials and temptations of this life are preparing us for the life to come, building character for eternity.  Have you ever been in a piano factory?  Did you go there to hear music?  Go into the tuning room and you will say, “This is a dreadful place, I can’t stand it, I thought you made music here.”

“No, we make instruments and tune them, and in the process much discord is produced.”

Such is the church of God on earth.  The Lord makes the instruments and tunes them down here.  A great deal of discord is easily perceptible, but it is all necessary to prepare us for the everlasting harmonies up yonder.

I am to stand one day so near to God that between Him and me there will be but one person, and that person is the Lord Jesus Christ, my Lord and Mediator.  In Christ, I am to have dominion over the works of God’s hands and to be crowned with glory and honor.  Angels are to be my servants and heaven my inheritance.

Will I ever grow proud?  Will self-exaltation creep in?  NO!  The character will be fixed for holiness as though etched in eternal brass.  It may be that all the afflictions and temptations that God permits to pass over us here below are forming us for eternal bliss.

Thus the corn is ripening for the harvester and the fruit is mellowing for the basket.  Here, the engraving tool and hammer bring out the beauties that will shine in the courts of the Lord forever, when on us also the record will be written, “They were tempted.”  (Heb. 11:37).

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