A great lesson in today's Reflection.
Now, everytime I look in the mirror, I will have this reminder.
"Daily Reflections" - "mirror" = Yep, works for me.
GOODMORNING AND GRACE TO ALL BRETHREN!
"I have exalted one chosen out of the people."
- Psalm 89:19
Why was Christ chosen out of the people? Speak, my heart, for
heart-thoughts are best. Was it not that he might be able to be our
brother, in the blest tie of kindred blood? Oh, what relationship there is
between Christ and the believer! The believer can say, "I have a Brother
in heaven; I may be poor, but I have a Brother who is rich, and is a King,
and will he suffer me to want while he is on his throne? Oh, no! He loves
me; he is my Brother.
" Believer, wear this blessed thought, like a necklace of diamonds, around
the neck of thy memory; put it, as a golden ring, on the finger of
recollection, and use it as the King's own seal, stamping the petitions of
thy faith with confidence of success.
He is a brother born for adversity, treat him as such.
Christ was also chosen out of the people that he might know our wants and
sympathize with us. "He was tempted in all points like as we are, yet
without sin." In all our sorrows we have his sympathy. Temptation, pain,
disappointment, weakness, weariness, poverty-he knows them all, for he has
felt all. Remember this, Christian, and let it comfort thee.
However difficult and painful thy road, it is marked by the footsteps of
thy Saviour; and even when thou reachest the dark valley of the shadow of
death, and the deep waters of the swelling Jordan, thou wilt find his
footprints there.
In all places whithersoever we go, he has been our forerunner; each
burden we have to carry, has once been laid on the shoulders of Immanuel.
"His way was much rougher and darker than mine
Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?"
Take courage! Royal feet have left a blood-red track upon the road, and
consecrated the thorny path for ever.
C.H.SPURGEON
SOLI DEO GLORIA!!!
Prayers offered up for a safe trip for those attending the Marches for Life on the East and West Coast. One of my relatives, acting as a chaperone, took a youth group to Washington DC for the march.
"Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it. The most difficult lesson of the Christian life is learning how to continue "beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord . . . .""
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O to be a reflection of our Lord.
Day by day ever more
Knowing whom we have believed ...
Trusting what He has in store
for our tomorrows ...
and our now ...
He was called
a man of sorrows ...
He is the one to follow ...
to waves of lilies,
amid heavenly fields,
along the road to glory ...
Forgive me Father,
You know me through
and through.
What I want is
to be with You ...
Holy, Holy, Holy,
are YOU.