Day 536 - December 3 - Thursday

Well, we had great hopes for yesterday, and they were not (at least immediately) fulfilled. I have no heart to write a lengthy and weighty dissertation this morning, so I'm just going to offer you two things - the words to a song, and the words of Mr. Spurgeon.

First, the words of my father's favorite hymn, the first verse of which I grasp more deeply today than ever before -

(click here to listen to it)

I am not skilled to understand
what God hath willed, what God hath planned;
I only know at His right hand
stands One who is my Savior.

I take Him at His word indeed:
"Christ died for sinners"—this I read;
For in my heart I find a need
of Him to be my Savior!

That He should leave His place on high,
and come for sinful man to die,
You count it strange? So once did I
before I knew my Savior!

And, oh, that He fulfilled may see
the travail of His soul in me,
And with His work contented be,
as I with my dear Savior!

Yes, living, dying, let me bring
my strength, my solace from this spring—
That He who lives to be my King
once died to be my Savior!

And the words from Charles Spurgeon's "Daily Help" for this morning -

"Many in waiting upon the Lord find immediate delight, but this is not the case with all. A deeper sense of sin may be given to you instead of a sense of pardon, and in such a case you will have need of patience to bear the heavy blow. Ah! poor heart, though Christ beat and bruise thee, or even slay thee, trust Him; though He should give thee an angry word, believe in the love of His heart. Do not, I beseech thee, give up seeking or trusting my Master because thou hast not yet obtained the conscious joy which thou longest for. Cast thyself on him, and perseveringly depend even where thou canst not rejoicingly hope."

Please keep praying for us.

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