It always a good thing to Look over the past year and see what God as done your life or something you need to change. Seeing how we have spent our time and we should ask ourselves if we spent our time wisely or not?
I challenge you all to look in your life and see what we need to change in our life to grower closer to Jesus Christ.
And for those that don't know Christ as there personal Savior it never to God forgiving and repent of our sin.
Well i think that is all for now. Abby
Watch-night Service
“Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord.”
Lamentations 2:19
Suggested Further Reading:
Psalm 90:1-12 (an exposition of which was given earlier in the service)
Dear
friends, may grace be given unto you, that ye may be able to pour out
your hearts this night! Remember, my hearers, it may seem a light thing
for us to assemble tonight at such an hour, but listen for one moment to
the ticking of that clock!…… It is the beating of the pulse of
eternity. You hear the ticking of that clock!—It is the footstep of
death pursuing you. Each time the clock ticks, death’s footsteps are
falling on the ground close behind you. You will soon enter another
year. This year will have gone in a few seconds. 1855 is almost gone;
where will the next year be spent, my friends? One has been spent on
earth; where will you spend the next? “In heaven!” says one, “I trust.”
Another murmurs, “Perhaps I shall spend mine in hell!” Ah! Solemn is the
thought, but before that clock strikes twelve, some here may be in
hell; and, blessed be the name of God, some of us may be in heaven! But
oh do you know how to estimate your time, my hearers? Do you know how to
measure your days? Oh! I have not words to speak tonight. Do you know
that every hour you are nearing the tomb? That every hour you are
nearing judgment? That the archangel is flapping his wings every second
of your life, and, trumpet at his mouth, is approaching you? That you do
not live stationary lives, but always going on, on, on, towards the
grave? Do you know where the stream of life is hastening some of you? To
the rapids—to the rapids of woe and destruction! What shall the end of
those be who obey not the gospel of God? You will not have so many years
to live as you had last year!
For meditation: The march of
time is a terrible enemy to all who persist in unbelief, but the
Christian sees things differently—“now is our salvation nearer than when
we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand” (
Romans 13:11-12).
Spurgeon must have the last word: “Now, my friends, in the highest and best sense, I wish you all a happy New Year.”
Sermon no. 59
31 December (1855)
