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I’m selling these baby dwarf hamsters because I do not much room in my apartment for all of them.

FOR SALE: Siberian Dwarf Hamsters for only PhP 80/each
(Cebu City Residents Only)

These dwarf hamsters were still 12-days old in this picture and they are about 3-weeks old now. They are housed in a clean cage with regular bedding changes, fed with Vitrakraft and Hagen Hamster Mix with occasional vegetable treats. Fresh water daily.

Gender yet to be determined. More pictures here.

Please leave a message if interested. Thank you!

Meet-up places: Ayala Center Cebu, SM City Cebu or Cebu Doctor’s Hospital.

Calling on the Spirit to search your heart, use the following questions to help determine whether you have forsaken your first love for Jesus.

• Is your zeal for God as warm, living, vigorous, effective, and eager as it was when you first gave yourself to God?
• Do rivers of tears flow from your eyes when God is dishonored (Psalm 119:136)?
• Do you contend as violently as you once did for the faith?
• Do you concern yourself as much as you once did with the glory of God in the world?
• Does your life judge the world by its holiness and separateness as it used to?
• Is your faith growing stronger?
• Do you delight in public worship as you did when you first came to Christ?
• Do you find the same relish and sweetness you once found in worship?
• Is the preaching of the Word as precious to you as it was?
• Do you listen to the Word eagerly and respond in faith and repentance?
• Do you anticipate the Sabbath as a time of joyous fellowship, as a foretaste of heaven?
• Do you hunger for holy conversation with others?
• Are you as careful about obedience as you were in the past?
• Is your conscience as tender toward sin as it was?
• As you as faithful in private prayer and meditation?
• Do you love your brothers and sisters more than before?
• Are you ready for crosses and burdens and persecution?
• Are you as humble?
• Are you willing to deny yourself for the sake of the Kingdom?

–Kris Lundgaard, The Enemy Within (P&R Publishing, 122-123).

“But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.” (Revelation 2:4-5, ESV)

Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
In the light of His glory and grace.

I began reading J. I. Packer’s Knowing God again. He rightly opens the first chapter with these timeless words from Charles Spurgeon…

It has been said by someone that “the proper study of mankind is man.” I will not oppose the idea, but I believe it is equally true that the proper study of God’s elect is God; the proper study of a Christian is the Godhead. The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father.

There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a contemplation of the Divinity. It is a subject so vast, that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity; so deep, that our pride is drowned in its infinity. Other subjects we can compass and grapple with; in them we feel a kind of self-content, and go our way with the thought, “Behold I am wise.” But when we come to this master science, finding that our plumbline cannot sound its depth, and that our eagle eye cannot see its height, we turn away with the thought that vain man would be wise, but he is like a wild ass’s colt; and with solemn exclamation, “I am but of yesterday, and know nothing.” No subject of contemplation will tend more to humble the mind, than thoughts of God….

But while the subject humbles the mind, it also expands it. He who often thinks of God, will have a larger mind than the man who simply plods around this narrow globe…. The most excellent study for expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity. Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the great subject of the Deity.

And, whilst humbling and expanding, this subject is eminently consolatory. Oh, there is, in contemplating Christ, a balm for every wound; in musing on the Father, there is a quietus for every grief; and in the influence of the Holy Ghost, there is a balsam for every sore. Would you lose your sorrow? Would you drown your cares? Then go, plunge yourself in the Godhead’s deepest sea; be lost in his immensity; and you shall come forth as from a couch of rest, refreshed and invigorated. I know nothing which can so comfort the soul; so calm the swelling billows of sorrow and grief; so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead. It is to that subject that I invite you this morning.

“The Immutability of God“, Delivered on Sabbath Morning, January 7th, 1855 at New Park Street Chapel, Southwark