When it Comes to Your Life...
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"Select a large box, and place in it as many cannon
balls as it will hold, and it is, after a fashion' full; but
it will hold more if smaller matters be found. Bring a
quantity of marbles; very many of these may be
packed in the spaces between the larger globes;
the box is now full, but still only in a sense; it will
contain more yet. There are interstices in
abundance, into which you make shake a
considerable quantity of small shot, and now the
chest is filled beyond all question; but yet there is
room. You cannot put in another shot or marble,
much less another ball; but you will find that several
pounds of sand will slide down between the larger
materials, and, even then between the granules of
sand, if you empty yonder jug, there will be space
for all the water, and for the same quantity several
times repeated.
Where there is no space for the great, there may be
room for the little; where the little cannot enter,
the less can makes it way; and where the less is
shut out, the least of all may find ample room.
So, where time is, as we say, fully occupied, there
must be stray moments, occasional intervals, and
snatches, which might hold a vast amount of little
usefulness in the course of months and years. What
a wealth of minor good as we think it to be, might be
shaken down into the interstices of ten years' work,
which might prove to be as precious in result by the
grace of God, as the greater works of the same
period." C.H. Spurgeon
"Charles Haddon Spurgeon
was a British Reformed
Baptist preacher who
remains highly influential
amongst Christians of
different denominations,
among whom he is still
known as the 'Prince of
Preachers'.
Surrey Music Hall in England
Spurgeon frequently
preached to audiences
numbering more than
10,000 --all in the days
before electronic
amplification.
By the time of his death in
1892, he had preached
almost thirty-six hundred sermons.
June 19th,1834
January 31st, 1892
The cannon balls represent the truly important
things in life, like spending quiet time with God.
These have to go into the "box of life" FIRST then we are to let everything else flow around them.
Little Things
It's just the little homely things,
The unobtrusive, friendly things,
The "won't-you-let-me-help-you" things
That make your pathway light--
And it's just the jolly, joking things,
The "never-mind-the-trouble" things,
The "laugh-with-me", it's funny" things
That make the world seem bright.
For all the countless famous things,
The wondrous, record-breaking things,
Those "never-can-be-equalled" things
That all the papers cite,
Aren't like the little human things,
The everyday-encounter things,
The "just-because-I-like-you" things
That make us happy quite.
So here's to all the simple things,
The dear "all-in-a-day's-work" things,
The "smile-and-face-your-troubles" things,
Trust God to put them right!
The "done-and-then-forgotten" things,
The "can't-you-see-I-love-you" things,
The hearty "I-am-with-you" things
That make life worth the fight.
Author Unknown
Meeting the Needs of Body, Mind and Spirit
Temple Restored
Ministry
