The joy of knowing the Lord Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord

Dear Reader,

Thank you for stopping by. It is raining heavily here in Singapore. Thank God for a cool morning. :-)

During my personal devotion time (quiet time) this morning, I read the following very comforting and encouraging devotional by Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning and Evening, 14 October, Morning.

I am reminded of the great privilege and joy God has given to me, in saving me from the eternal condemnations of sins, through the death of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross where He shed His blood to redeem me and all His people. By the Lord's resurrection, He had reconciled me with God. May the Lord help me to grow to love Him and His Words more and more each day, to glorify Him in my life and to continue to rejoice in Him daily.

If you too are a Christian, may the devotional below, encourage you too. If you have not trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ yet, it is my prayer that you will seek Him and know His saving grace.

"I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord." Philippians 3:8

Spiritual knowledge of Christ will be a personal knowledge. I cannot know Jesus through another person's acquaintance with him. 

No, I must know him myself; I must know him on my own account. 

It will be an intelligent knowledge--I must know him, not as the visionary dreams of him, but as the Word reveals him. 

I must know his natures, divine and human. I must know his offices--his attributes--his works--his shame--his glory.

I must meditate upon him until I "comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge." 

It will be an affectionate knowledge of him; indeed, if I know him at all, I must love him. An ounce of heart knowledge is worth a ton of head learning. 

Our knowledge of him will be a satisfying knowledge. When I know my Saviour, my mind will be full to the brim--I shall feel that I have that which my spirit panted after. "This is that bread whereof if a man eat he shall never hunger." 

At the same time it will be an exciting knowledge; the more I know of my Beloved, the more I shall want to know. The higher I climb the loftier will be the summits which invite my eager footsteps. I shall want the more as I get the more. Like the miser's treasure, my gold will make me covet more. 

To conclude; this knowledge of Christ Jesus will be a most happy one; in fact, so elevating, that sometimes it will completely bear me up above all trials, and doubts, and sorrows; and it will, while I enjoy it, make me something more than "Man that is born of woman, who is of few days, and full of trouble"; for it will fling about me the immortality of the ever living Saviour, and gird me with the golden girdle of his eternal joy. 

Come, my soul, sit at Jesus's feet and learn of him all this day.

Full verse:

"Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ," Philippians 3:8

(Excerpts from: CH Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, 14 October, Morning. The paragraphing are mine.)

To read Online:

https://www.biblegateway.com/devotionals/morning-and-evening/2024/10/14

To listen Online:

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/devotional/morning-and-evening/1014m

Thank you for stopping by. Have a blessed day! 

Best Regards

Nancie

(14 October 2024)

The great Promises of God in His Words, the Bible, for comfort and encouragement in Christian life

Dear Reader,

Thank you for stopping by. Below, is a sharing from a very comforting and encouraging excerpts taken from the Devotional by Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning and Evening, 19 September, Morning.

May God encouraged and comfort you too as He guide you through the various changing scenes in your life. If you are facing difficulties and your are hurting, grieving and or in pain, may God comforts you through His Words and this devotional by CH Spurgeon:

"Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." Galatians 5:1 (KJV Bible, King James Bible)

This "liberty" makes us free to heaven's charter--the Bible. 

Here is a choice passage, believer, "When thou passest through the rivers, I will be with thee." You are free to that. 

Here is another: "The mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee"; you are free to that. 

You are a welcome guest at the table of the promises. Scripture is a never-failing treasury filled with boundless stores of grace. It is the bank of heaven; you may draw from it as much as you please, without let or hindrance. 

Come in faith and you are welcome to all covenant blessings. There is not a promise in the Word which shall be withheld. In the depths of tribulations let this freedom comfort you; amidst waves of distress let it cheer you; when sorrows surround thee let it be thy solace. This is thy Father's love-token; thou art free to it at all times. 

Thou art also free to the throne of grace. It is the believer's privilege to have access at all times to his heavenly Father. Whatever our desires, our difficulties, our wants, we are at liberty to spread all before him. It matters not how much we may have sinned, we may ask and expect pardon. It signifies nothing how poor we are, we may plead his promise that he will provide all things needful. We have permission to approach his throne at all times--in midnight's darkest hour, or in noontide's most burning heat. Exercise thy right, O believer, and live up to thy privilege. 

Thou art free to all that is treasured up in Christ--wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. It matters not what thy need is, for there is fulness of supply in Christ, and it is there for thee. 

O what a "freedom" is thine! freedom from condemnation, freedom to the promises, freedom to the throne of grace, and at last freedom to enter heaven!

To read Online:

https://www.biblegateway.com/devotionals/morning-and-evening/2024/09/19

To listen Online:

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/devotional/morning-and-evening/0919m

Thank you for stopping by. Have a blessed day! 

Best Regards

Nancie

(19 September 2024)

Finding comfort and encouragement in difficult time

Dear Reader,

Thank you for stopping by. Thank God for His tender mercies and lovingkindness in my life. Below, is my sharing from a very comforting and encouraging excerpts taken from the Devotional by Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning and Evening, 15 September, Morning.

May God encouraged and comfort you too as He guide you through the various changing scenes in your life. If you are facing difficulties and your are hurting, grieving and or in pain, may God comforts you through His Words and this devotional by CH Spurgeon:

"He shall not be afraid of evil tidings." Psalm 112:7

Christian, you ought not to dread the arrival of evil tidings; because if you are distressed by them, what do you more than other men? Other men have not your God to fly to; they have never proved his faithfulness as you have done, and it is no wonder if they are bowed down with alarm and cowed with fear: 

But you profess to be of another spirit; you have been begotten again unto a lively hope, and your heart lives in heaven and not on earthly things; now, if you are seen to be distracted as other men, what is the value of that grace which you profess to have received? Where is the dignity of that new nature which you claim to possess?

Again, if you should be filled with alarm, as others are, you would, doubtless, be led into the sins so common to others under trying circumstances. The ungodly, when they are overtaken by evil tidings, rebel against God; they murmur, and think that God deals hardly with them. Will you fall into that same sin? Will you provoke the Lord as they do?

Moreover, unconverted men often run to wrong means in order to escape from difficulties, and you will be sure to do the same if your mind yields to the present pressure. 

Trust in the Lord, and wait patiently for him. Your wisest course is to do as Moses did at the Red Sea, "Stand still and see the salvation of God." 

For if you give way to fear when you hear of evil tidings, you will be unable to meet the trouble with that calm composure which nerves for duty, and sustains under adversity. 

How can you glorify God if you play the coward? 

Saints have often sung God's high praises in the fires, but will your doubting and desponding, as if you had none to help you, magnify the Most High? 

Then take courage, and relying in sure confidence upon the faithfulness of your covenant God, "let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."

(Excerpts from: CH Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, 15 September, Morning)

To read Online:

https://www.biblegateway.com/devotionals/morning-and-evening/2024/09/15

To listen Online:

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/devotional/morning-and-evening/0915m

Thank you for stopping by. Have a blessed day! 

Best Regards

Nancie

(16 September 2024)