Happy New Year and welcome to a special episode of the Crossby Podcast.

Today we're excited to share something new we've been working on, a twice-daily podcast called Morning and Evening with Charles Spurgeon.

These devotionals have helped generations of Christians start and end their days with Christ at the center.

To give you a taste of what to expect, we're sharing

the morning reading for January 1st right here on the Crossby podcast. Let's get started.

January 1st, morning. They ate at the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

Joshua chapter 5 verse 12.

Israel's weary wanderings were all over and the promised rest was attained.

No more moving tents, fiery serpents, fierce Amalekites and howling wildernesses. They came to the land that flowed

with milk and honey, and they ate the old corn of the land. Perhaps this year, beloved Christian

reader, this may be your case or mine. Joyful is the prospect, and if faith be an active exercise, it will yield

unalloyed delight. To be with Jesus in the rest, which remains for the people of God,

is a cheering hope indeed, and to expect this glory so soon is a double bliss. Unbelief shudders at the Jordan that still rolls between us and the goodly land.

But let us rest assured that we have already experienced more ills than death at its worst can cause us.

Let us banish every fearful thought and rejoice with exceeding great joy in the prospect that this year we shall begin to be forever with the Lord. Some of the

company will this year remain on earth to do service for their Lord.

If this should fall to our Lord, there is no reason why the New Year's text should not still be true.

We, who have believed, enter that rest. The Holy Spirit is the earnest of our inheritance. He gives us glory

begun below. In heaven, believers are secure, and so are we preserved in Christ Jesus. There

they triumph over their enemies, and we have victories too. Celestial spirits enjoy communion with their Lord,

and this is not denied to us. They rest in his love, and we have perfect peace in him.

They sing his praise, and it is our privilege to bless him too.

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