Sunday, November 20, 2022

Thanksgiving SERIES (Spurgeon): The glory of autumn....

 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; 
and thy paths drop fatness.
Psalm 65:11
 
"If we begin with the blessings of the nether springs, we must not forget that for the race of man the joyous days of harvest are a special season of excessive favor. 
 
It is the glory of autumn that the ripe gifts of providence are then abundantly bestowed; ....Great is the joy of harvest. 
Happy are the reapers who fill their arms with the liberality of heaven. 
 
The Psalmist tells us that the harvest is the crowning of the year.
 
Q: What if I compare the opening spring to the proclamation of a new prince, the latest born of Father Time? With the musical voices of birds, and the joyful lowing of herds, a new era of fertility is ushered in. 
 
No studs of silver or rows of jewels can vie with the ornaments of the year.  
No garments of needlework of divers colors can match the glorious vesture of Time’s reigning son
But the moment of the coronation, when earth feels most the sway of the year, is in the fulness of autumn
Then when the fields are covered with a cloth of gold, and fruits are glowing with the rich hues of ripeness, and the leaves are burnished with inimitable perfection of tint and shade, then with a coronal of divine goodness, amidst the glad shouts of toiling swains, and the songs of rejoicing maidens, the year is crowned. 
 
Upon a throne of golden corn, with the peaceful sickle for his sceptre, sits the crowned year bearing the goodness of the Lord as a coronet upon his placid brow......riding in triumph throughout the summer along a pathway strewed with flowers, and at last mounting the throne, amidst the festivities of harvest, while the Lord in lovingkindness puts a diadem of beauty and goodness upon its head,"
Charles Spurgeon