Thou crownest the year with thy goodness. –Psalm 65:11
“All the year round, every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake his mercy waits upon us.
The sun may leave us a legacy of darkness, but our God never ceases to shine upon his children with beams of love.
Like a river, his lovingkindness is always flowing, with a fulness inexhaustible as his own nature.
Like the atmosphere which constantly surrounds the earth, and is always ready to support the life of man, the benevolence of God surrounds all his creatures; in it, as in their element, they live, and move, and have their being.
Yet as the sun on summer days gladdens us with beams more warm and bright than at other times, and as rivers are at certain seasons swollen by the rain, and as the atmosphere itself is sometimes fraught with more fresh, more bracing, or more balmy influences than heretofore, so is it with the mercy of God; it hath its golden hours; its days of overflow, when the Lord magnifieth his grace before the sons of men.
Amongst the blessings of the nether springs, the joyous days of harvest are a special season of excessive favour. It is the glory of autumn that the ripe gifts of providence are then abundantly bestowed; it is the mellow season of realization, whereas all before was but hope and expectation.
Great is the joy of harvest. Happy are the reapers who fill their arms with the liberality of heaven. The Psalmist tells us that the harvest is the crowning of the year. Surely these crowning mercies call for crowning thanksgiving!
Let us render it by the inward emotions of gratitude. Let our hearts be warmed; let our spirits remember, meditate, and think upon this goodness of the Lord. Then let us praise him with our lips, and laud and magnify his name from whose bounty all this goodness flows.”
–Charles Spurgeon, August 1, Morning and Evening: Daily Readings.
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Happy Thanksgiving, Wardee! Hope you and your family have a very blessed holiday! 🙂
You too, Kelly!
Thank you Wardee! Happy Thanksgiving. You’ve been a blessing to me. 🙂
The feeling is mutual, Stacy! 🙂 Happy Thanksgiving to you, too!
Hi Wardee, Thanks for sharing this wonderful post. Happy Thanksgiving. And have a blessed holiday.
Kim — Thank you! I hope your Thanksgiving and Christmas are filled with joy and blessings!
Just catching up with blog reading after an extended Thanksgiving weekend break and had to drop in to thank you for the Spurgeon this morning. Blessings to you and yours, ~Lisa
Thanks for that, Wardee. Although it’s not Autumn/Fall on this side of the planet, it’s always a good time to be thankful to the One in whom we live and move and have our being. 😎
Like the atmosphere which constantly surrounds the earth, and is always ready to support the life of man, the benevolence of God surrounds all his creatures; in it, as in their element, they live, and move, and have their being.