Autumn is my favorite season! So many attributes welcome us after the hot summer; cooler weather, gorgeous fall leaves, harvest time, hot apple cider, the smell of spices, breezy afternoon walks.
Autumn is also a time, for me, of reflecting on the amazing goodness of God. I would like to share with you a beautiful message written by Charles Spurgeon that I love to read when autumn finally rolls around.
“God blesses us richly every hour of every day. When we sleep and we wake, His mercy waits upon us. The sun may leave us a legacy of darkness, but God never ceases to shine upon His children with beams of love. Like a river, His loving kindness always flows with a fullness that is as inexhaustible as His own nature. Like the atmosphere which surrounds the earth and supports the life of man, the benevolence of God surrounds all His creatures.
Rivers are swollen at certain seasons by the rain, and the atmosphere itself is sometimes filled with more fresh, more bracing, or more balmy influences than usual. It is the same with the mercy of God. It has its golden hours and its days of overflowing joy, when the Lord magnifies His grace before the sons of men.
The joyous days of harvest are a special season of favor. The glory of autumn is in the ripe gifts of providence that are abundantly bestowed. It is the mellow season of realization where all before was mere hope and expectation. Great is the joy of the 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 offer thanks by the inward emotions of gratitude. Let our hearts be warmed, and let our spirits remember and meditate upon the goodness of the Lord. Then, let us praise Him with our lips and magnify His name, from whose bounty all this goodness flows. Let us glorify God by yielding our gifts to Him.”
Wow. This writing warms my heart everytime I read it. Let us remember the goodness of the Lord.
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hey kaysie! Autumn is my favorite time too! it always gives me a lot to think about. i love looking at the first tree to turn red, it gives me so much of what GOD has in store for our lives. us Christians are supposed to be a light to the ‘world,’ we are supposed to stand out and be different, seeing one red/yellow tree among ALL of the green really shows me how i am supposed to act. and it often shows me how i’m not acting! am i standing out? am i the red among the green? i know the only connection between what i’m saying and what kaysie wrote is the reasons why we like Fall. i know this is sort of off her subject, but i wanted to say that i truly believe that Kaysie, even when i’m not, does truly reflect the gloryess light of CHRIST! her Blog always gives me something to think about… and always gives a real warm almost Christmas feeling, because it reminds me of thoughts that the LORD has given me, and not to forget them, i am SO thankful that i have you for a friend!C.E.H. < !
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