{"id":4699,"date":"2012-03-17T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=4699"},"modified":"2012-03-15T12:31:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T20:31:23","slug":"to-him-be-glory-both-now-and-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2012\/03\/17\/to-him-be-glory-both-now-and-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"To Him Be Glory Both Now and Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Charles Haddon Spurgeon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From <strong>2 Peter 3:18<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heaven will be full of the ceaseless praises of Jesus. Eternity! thine unnumbered years shall speed their everlasting course, but forever and for ever, &#8216;to Him be glory.&#8217; Is He not a &#8216;Priest I for ever after the order of Melchisedek&#8217;? &#8216;To Him be glory.&#8217; Is He not king for ever?-King of kings and Lord of lords, the everlasting Father? &#8216;To Him be glory <em>for ever<\/em>.&#8217; Never shall His praises cease. That which was bought with blood deserves to last while immortality endures. The glory of the cross must never be eclipsed; the lustre of the grave and of the resurrection must never be dimmed. O Jesus! thou shalt be praised for ever. Long as immortal spirits live-long as the Father&#8217;s throne endures-for ever, for ever, unto Thee shall be glory.<\/p>\n<p>Believer, you are anticipating the time when you shall join the saints above in ascribing all glory to Jesus; but are you glorifying Him <em>now<\/em>? The apostle&#8217;s words are, &#8216;To Him be glory both now and for ever.&#8217; Will you not this day make it your prayer? &#8216;Lord, help me to glorify Thee; I am poor, help me to glorify Thee by contentment; I am sick, help me to give Thee honour by patience; I have talents, help me to extol Thee by spending them for Thee; I have time, Lord, help me to redeem it, that I may serve thee; I have a heart to feel, Lord, let that heart feel no love but Thine, and glow with no flame but affection for Thee; I have a head to think, Lord, help me to think <em>of<\/em> Thee and <em>for<\/em> Thee; Thou hast put me in this world for something, Lord, show me what that is, and help me to work out my life-purpose: I cannot do much, but as the widow put in her two mites, which were all her living, so, Lord, I cast my time and eternity too into Thy treasury; I am all Thine; take me, and enable me to glorify Thee <em>now<\/em>, in all that I say, in all that I do, and with all that I have.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>2.15a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Charles Haddon Spurgeon From 2 Peter 3:18 Heaven will be full of the ceaseless praises of Jesus. Eternity! thine unnumbered years shall speed their everlasting course, but forever and for ever, &#8216;to Him be glory.&#8217; Is He not a &#8216;Priest I for ever after the order of Melchisedek&#8217;? &#8216;To Him be glory.&#8217; Is He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spurgeon-saturday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4761,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions\/4761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}