Wesley Hit it Pretty Straight, Too!

NOTHING TO DO BUT SAVE SOULS

"You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend and be spent in this work. And go always, not only to those that want you, but to those that want you most. Observe: It is not your business to preach so many times, and to take care of this or that society; but to save as many souls as you can; to bring them to repentance, and with all your power to build them up in holiness without which they cannot see the Lord."

-John Wesley

_{As quoted in The Berean Call's daily newsletter December 4, 2008.
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Charles Spurgeon Did Have a Nice Way...

A portion from this morning's devotion in "Morning and Evening"
Enjoy!

"...God has among the vilest of the vile, the most reprobate, the most debauched and drunken, an elect people who must be saved. When you take the Word to them, you do so because God has ordained you to be the messenger of life to their souls, and they must receive it, for so the decree of predestination runs. They are as much redeemed by blood as the saints before the eternal throne. They are Christ’s property, and yet perhaps they are lovers of the ale-house, and haters of holiness; but if Jesus Christ purchased them he will have them. God is not unfaithful to forget the price which his Son has paid. He will not suffer his substitution to be in any case an ineffectual, dead thing. Tens of thousands of redeemed ones are not regenerated yet, but regenerated they must be; and this is our comfort when we go forth to them with the quickening Word of God."

- Spurgeon, Charles H.

_{from "Morning and Evening, Daily Readings"
by Charles H. Spurgeon
Complete and unabridged; New modern edition
Peabody, MA, Hendrickson Publishers, 2006,
S. December 4 AM}

Today's Word Study: "Harf"

Last night I was in the bathroom when one of my daughters came to the door with the emergency announcement:

"Daddy, one of the puppies just harfed in my bedroom floor."

I got so tickled. What a perfect word! I'd never heard the word "harfed" before and yet the word so perfectly described vomiting that I immediately knew what she meant. The second thought through my mind was "Oh yeah. I'll be using that word!"

Only a few other words so perfectly describe their object. To me the best is "Jesus".

"JESUS"

“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.”
- Isaiah 9:6-7 NIV

Yep, that's "JESUS" to me.

[To finish the puppy story: Well, as these things go, the puppy harf was a good one by my little girl pup. We'd just finished making gingerbread cookies earlier and I'd been slipping the puppies cookie dough under the table, (Yeah, Daddy gets the blame on this one.) So this was the dreaded "molasses harf" that required a scramble to keep it from putting a terrible stain into the carpet. I'll find out if it made a permanent stain once the carpet's completely dry today... Now I wonder: did anyone really want to know this?]