Happy Thanksgiving

If I sat here and thought and pondered on the things I am thankful for, I could probably compile a decent size list. The things that I take for granted would likely add up to a similar sized list, if not larger. Im so thankful for my God, and the redeeming, perfect, and complete work He has accomplished through His death, burial, and resurrection. Thankful for my wife, and the fruitful vine she is, in the very heart of my home. I am thankful for a beautiful, healthy baby girl. I am also very thankful for my beautiful family. So thankful for an amazing church family, and a church to call home. Thankful for difficult, faith testing times....that I might see more clearly on this side of eternity, how personal, loving, and faithful the God of Holy Scripture truly is....and that I might be more conformed into the image of Jesus Christ.

James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

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Another Spurgeon Devo


NOVEMBER 25

“Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.”
Zech. 4:7.


AT this hour a mountain of difficulty, distress, or necessity may be in our way, and natural reason sees no path over it, or through it, or round it. Let faith come in, and straightway the mountain disappears and becomes a plain. But faith must first hear the word of the Lord—“Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.” This grand truth is a prime necessity for meeting the insurmountable trials of life.
I see that I can do nothing, and that all reliance on man is vanity. “Not by might.” I see that no visible means can be relied on, but the force is in the invisible Spirit. God alone must work, and men and means must be nothing accounted of. If it be so, that the Almighty God takes up the concerns of his people, then great mountains are nothing. He can remove worlds as boys toss balls about, or drive them with their foot. This power he can lend to me. If the Lord bids me move an Alp I can do it through his name. It may be a great mountain, but even before my feebleness it shall become a plain; for the Lord hath said it. What can I be afraid of with God on my side?