Lately I have been reading Brilliants, selected from works of Charles Spurgeon. I downloaded for FREE on my nook. Most of my books on Spurgeon and others like Andrew Murray I have downloaded for free I'm guessing because they are so old. Either way, I wanted to share some of the profound things this man has to say and what makes them so profound, to me, isn't necessarily that I haven't heard it before but rather what is said is said with such eloquence and clarity.

Consider his words:

It takes something to make a mountain sing: and yet the prophet summons quite a choir of them. Lebanon, and Sirion, and the high hills of Bashan and Moab, he would set them all singing because of Jehovah's grace to His own Zion.
May we not also make mountains of difficulty, and trial, and mystery, and labor become occasions for praise unto our God? Break forth into singing, O mountains!

I love the picture of making the mountains (trials) in our life sing praise to God. James 1:2 says count it all joy when you have trials. As christians we need to understand that trials build character and produces good fruit within us. I found something worth noting on Pinterest:

The bible also says in James 1:3-4 that trials work patience and to let patience have her perfect work that you may be PERFECT and entire, wanting nothing.

So, the Spurgeon thought for the day is don't let your trials overcome you but remember that God's purpose is not to drown you but to cleanse you and make you perfect and entire. Make your mountains burst forth in singing praise unto God, thanking him for loving you and taking time to make you a better person.

Hebrews 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth