Good Like a Medicine

 Good Like a Medicine: Tear Off Some Joy

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Good like a medicine

June 15th, 2007


I can’t believe another year has passed, and I have come again to the June 15th reading of Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening. It seems like it was just last week that I read it. Today’s delivery is a special one in my heart. It was the reason I chose “good like a medicine” for my blog name as I pondered the great joy of knowing Jesus Christ.

“I would have all those that hear of my great deliverance from hell, and my most blessed visitation from on high, laugh for joy with me. I would surprise my family with my abundant peace; I would delight my friends with my ever-increasing happiness; I would edify the Church with my grateful confessions; and even impress the world with the cheerfulness of my daily conversation. Bunyan tells us that Mercy laughed in her sleep, and no wonder when she dreamed of Jesus; my joy shall not stop short of hers while my Beloved is the theme of my daily thoughts. The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy: my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society. Sarah looked on her Isaac, and laughed with excess of rapture, and all her friends laughed with her; and thou, my soul, look on thy Jesus, and bid heaven and earth unite in thy joy unspeakable.”

I am in agreement with these passionate words. May you also know the abundant joy washing clean your most horrible doubts, fears, and sin: the joy which flows from the purest Source!


(PS - This is not the main reason I love Spurgeon so much, but don’t you think my husband kind of looks like him? Especially in this video after which he decided to finally cut his Spurgeon-like beard traveling down over his neck! he he he I have complete permission to embarrass him; after all I have every reason to mock my own laugh in the video….)

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  • Andrea wrote,

    Yes, actually he *does* look like Spurgeon!!

    I love “Morning and Evening”.

  • Anonymous wrote,

    He’s better looking than Spurgeon and his lady is mighty pretty, also:)

  • staceyhoff wrote,

    This has nothing to do with your current post here, BUT :) ,

    Hi! I follwed you over here from andrea’s blog. And I’m so glad I did! You are such an inspiration. ‘I want to be like you when I grow up.” lol. I hope you don’t mind, your comment on andrea’s blog was so good that in a flash of inspiration I posted it on my blog ( giving you the credit of course) so that my friends could read it. You spoke into my life, and my current challenges, with that comment and you didn’t even know who all you’d be touching with your words ;)
    Thank you so much for sharing that experience!I hope that we can become ‘bloggy friends’! :)

  • r cook wrote,

    Kristi, do you remember when we were in India (6 years ago! whoah!) , and we were joking that you were going to name your first boy “Spurgeon Luther?” Ahh this post reminded me of that..what happened to change your mind? (wink)

  • goodlikeamedicine wrote,

    Ha! Yes, I have made that joke since then many times, Rainie!

    We decided about two years ago to transfer the name to a dog name, but we still haven’t gotten a dog. Eric promises we can get a dog when God slows down my fertility - hahaha!

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