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\"12-30-15<\/a><\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 Are you feeding the ducks?<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 Yep, just feeding the ducks here and having some quiet time.<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 I was just reading some thoughts that I would like to share.<\/p>\n

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Charles Spurgeon shares in his book Joy In Christ’s Presence<\/p>\n

I am very weak, but He is strong, and His strength overshadows my feebleness.\u00a0 I am very poor, but He has all the riches of the universe, and His riches overshadow my poverty.\u00a0 I am most unworthy, but He is so worthy that if I use His name I will receive as much as if I were worthy.\u00a0 Indeed, His worthiness overshadows my unworthiness.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is very precious to put this truth another way and say, “If there is anything good in me,\u00a0 it is not good when I compare myself with Him, for His goodness quite eclipses and overshadows it.”Can I say I love Him? I do, but I hardly are to call it love, for His love overshadows it.\u00a0 do I think that I serve Him?\u00a0 I want to, but my poor service is not worth mentioning in comparison with what He has done for me.\u00a0 Have I thought that I had any degree of holiness?\u00a0 I must not deny what His Spirit works in me, but when I think of His immaculate life and all His divine perfections, where am I?\u00a0 What am I?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have you not sometimes felt this?\u00a0 have you not been so overshadowed by your Lord and hidden in Him that you became as nothing?\u00a0 I myself know what it is to feel that if I die in a poorhouse, it does not matter, as long as my Lord is glorified.\u00a0 Mortals may slander me, if they like, but what difference does it make, since His dear name will one day be written in stars across the sky?\u00a0 Let Him overshadow me; I delight that it should be so.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Luke 6:22<\/p>\n

Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

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www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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