This is the personal weblog of Aakash Raut, established Sept. 2002. It will cover current affairs, worldwide & national topics, local & university events, and provide insight and commentary on contemporary issues and the news from his perspective. Enjoy!
Here is a friend's Christmas Eve 2003 entry from his weblog:
12/24/2003: "December 24th: Spurgeon's Evening Devotional"
"'The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.'--Isaiah 40:5
"We anticipate the happy day when the whole world shall be converted to
Christ; when the gods of the heathen shall be cast to the moles and the
bats; when Romanism shall be exploded, and the crescent of Mohammed
shall wane, never again to cast its baleful rays upon the nations; when
kings shall bow down before the Prince of Peace, and all nations shall
call their Redeemer blessed. Some despair of this. They look upon the
world as a vessel breaking up and going to pieces, never to float again.
We know that the world and all that is therein is one day to be burnt
up, and afterwards we look for new heavens and for a new earth; but we
cannot read our Bibles without the conviction that-
"'Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run.'
"We are not discouraged by the length of his delays; we are not
disheartened by the long period which he allots to the church in which
to struggle with little success and much defeat. We believe that God
will never suffer this world, which has once seen Christ's blood shed
upon it, to be always the devil's stronghold. Christ came hither to
deliver this world from the detested sway of the powers of darkness.
What a shout shall that be when men and angels shall unite to cry
'Hallelujah, hallelujah, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth!' What a
satisfaction will it be in that day to have had a share in the fight, to
have helped to break the arrows of the bow, and to have aided in
winning the victory for our Lord! Happy are they who trust themselves
with this conquering Lord, and who fight side by side with him, doing
their little in his name and by his strength! How unhappy are those on
the side of evil! It is a losing side, and it is a matter wherein to
lose is to lose and to be lost for ever. On whose side are you?"--Charles Spurgeon