Morning and Evening with Charles Spurgeon

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November 14, 2025 November 14th Evening
“And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.” — Genesis 29:26
We do not excuse Laban for his dishonesty, but we scruple not to learn from the custom which he quoted as his excuse. There are some things which must be taken in order, and if we would win the second we must secure the first. The second may be the more lovely in our eyes, but the rule of the heavenly country must stand, and the elder must be married first. For instance, many men desire the beautiful and well-favoured Rachel of joy and peace in believing, but they must first be wedded to the tender-eyed Leah of repentance. Every one falls in love with happiness, and many would cheerfully serve twice seven years to enjoy it, but according to the rule of the Lord’s kingdom, the Leah of real holiness must be beloved of our soul before the Rachel of true happiness can be attained. Heaven stands not first but second, and only by…
persevering to the end can
we win a portion in it. The cross must be carried before the crown can be
worn. We must follow our Lord in His humiliation, or we shall never rest
with Him in glory.
My soul, what sayest thou, art thou so vain as to hope to break through
the heavenly rule? Dost thou hope for reward without labour, or honour
without toil? Dismiss the idle expectation, and be content to take the
ill-favoured things for the sake of the sweet love of Jesus, which will
recompense thee for all. In such a spirit, labouring and suffering, thou wilt
find bitters grow sweet, and hard things easy. Like Jacob, thy years of
service will seem unto thee but a few days for the love thou hast to Jesus;
and when the dear hour of the wedding feast shall come, all thy toils shall
be as though they had never been — an hour with Jesus will make up for
ages of pain and labour.
Jesus, to win Thyself so fair, Thy cross I will with gladness bear: Since so the rules of heaven ordain, The first I’ll wed the next to gain.
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November 14, 2025 November 14th Morning
“I will cut off them that worship and that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham.” — Zephaniah 1:5
Such persons thought themselves safe because they were with both parties: they went with the followers of Jehovah, and bowed at the same time to Malcham. But duplicity is abominable with God, and hypocrisy His soul hateth. The idolater who distinctly gives himself to his false God, has one sin less than he who brings his polluted and detestable sacrifice unto the temple of the Lord, while his heart is with the world and the sins thereof. To hold with the hare and run with the hounds, is a dastard’s policy. In the common matters of daily life, a double- minded man is despised, but in religion he is loathsome to the last degree. The penalty pronounced in the verse before us is terrible, but it is…
well deserved; for
how should divine justice spare the sinner, who knows the right, approves
it, and professes to follow it, and all the while loves the evil, and gives it
dominion in his heart?
My soul, search thyself this morning, and see whether thou art guilty of
double-dealing. Thou professest to be a follower of Jesus — dost thou
truly love Him? Is thy heart right with God? Art thou of the family of old
Father Honest, or art thou a relative of Mr. By-ends? A name to live is of
little value if I be indeed dead in trespasses and sins. To have one foot on
the land of truth, and another on the sea of falsehood, will involve a terrible
fall and a total ruin. Christ will be all or nothing. God fills the whole
universe, and hence there is no room for another God; if, then, He reigns in
my heart, there will be no space for another reigning power. Do I rest alone
on Jesus crucified, and live alone for Him? Is it my desire to do so? Is my
heart set upon so doing? If so, blessed be the mighty grace which has led
me to salvation; and if not so, O Lord, pardon my sad offence, and unite
my heart to fear Thy name.
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November 13, 2025 November 13th Evening
“Men ought always to pray.” — Luke 18:1
If men ought always to pray and not to faint, much more Christian men. Jesus has sent His church into the world on the same errand upon which He Himself came, and this mission includes intercession. What if I say that the church is the world’s priest? Creation is dumb, but the church is to find a mouth for it. It is the church’s high privilege to pray with acceptance. The door of grace is always open for her petitions, and they never return empty-handed. The veil was rent for her, the blood was sprinkled upon the altar for her, God constantly invites her to ask what she wills. Will she refuse the privilege which angels might envy her? Is she not the bride of Christ? May she not go in unto her King at every hour? Shall she allow the precious privilege to be unused? The church always has…
need for prayer. There are always some in her midst who are declining, or
falling into open sin. There are lambs to be prayed for, that they may be
carried in Christ’s bosom? the strong, lest they grow presumptuous; and
the weak, lest they become despairing. If we kept up prayer-meetings
four-and-twenty hours in the day, all the days in the year, we might never
be without a special subject for supplication. Are we ever without the sick
and the poor, the afflicted and the wavering? Are we ever without those
who seek the conversion of relatives, the reclaiming of back-sliders, or the
salvation of the depraved? Nay, with congregations constantly gathering,
with ministers always preaching, with millions of sinners lying dead in
trespasses and sins; in a country over which the darkness of Romanism is
certainly descending; in a world full of idols, cruelties, devilries, if the
church doth not pray, how shall she excuse her base neglect of the
commission of her loving Lord? Let the church be constant in supplication,
let every private believer cast his mite of prayer into the treasury.
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November 13, 2025 November 13th Morning
“The branch cannot bear fruit of itself.” — John 15:4
How did you begin to bear fruit? It was when you came to Jesus and cast yourselves on His great atonement, and rested on His finished righteousness. Ah! what fruit you had then! Do you remember those early days? Then indeed the vine flourished, the tender grape appeared, the pomegranates budded forth, and the beds of spices gave forth their smell. Have you declined since then? If you have, we charge you to remember that time of love, and repent, and do thy first works. Be most in those engagements which you have experimentally proved to draw you nearest to Christ, because it is from Him that all your fruits proceed. Any holy exercise which will bring you to Him will help you to bear fruit. The sun is, no doubt, a great worker in fruit-creating among the trees of the orchard: and Jesus is still more so among the trees of His garden of grace. When have you been the most fruitless? Has not it been when…
you have lived
farthest from the Lord Jesus Christ, when you have slackened in prayer,
when you have departed from the simplicity of your faith, when your
graces have engrossed your attention instead of your Lord, when you have
said, “My mountain standeth firm, I shall never be moved”; and have
forgotten where your strength dwells — has not it been then that your
fruit has ceased? Some of us have been taught that we have nothing out of
Christ, by terrible abasements of heart before the Lord; and when we have
seen the utter barrenness and death of all creature power, we have cried in
anguish, “From Him all my fruit must be found, for no fruit can ever come
from me.” We are taught, by past experience, that the more simply we
depend upon the grace of God in Christ, and wait upon the Holy Spirit,
the more we shall bring forth fruit unto God. Oh! to trust Jesus for fruit as
well as for life.
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November 12, 2025 November 12th Evening
“And it came to pass in those days, that He went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.” — Luke 6:12
If ever one of woman born might have lived without prayer, it was our spotless, perfect a Lord, and yet none was ever so much in supplication as He! Such was His love to His Father, that He loved much to be in communion with Him: such His love for His people, that He desired to be much in intercession for them. The fact of this eminent prayerfulness of Jesus is a lesson for us — He hath given us an example that we may follow in His steps. The time He chose was admirable, it was the hour of silence, when the crowd would not disturb Him; the time of inaction, when all but Himself had ceased to labour; and the season when slumber made men forget their woes, and cease their applications to Him for relief. While others found…
rest in sleep, He refreshed Himself with prayer. The place
was also well selected. He was alone where none would intrude, where
none could observe: thus was He free from Pharisaic ostentation and vulgar
interruption. Those dark and silent hills were a fit oratory for the Son of
God. Heaven and earth in midnight stillness heard the groans and sighs of
the mysterious Being in whom both worlds were blended. The continuance
of His pleadings is remarkable; the long watches were not too long; the
cold wind did not chill His devotions; the grim darkness did not darken His
faith, or loneliness check His importunity. We cannot watch with Him one
hour, but He watched for us whole nights. The occasion for this prayer is
notable; it was after His enemies had been enraged — prayer was His
refuge and solace; it was before He sent forth the twelve apostles —
prayer was the gate of His enterprise, the herald of His new work. Should
we not learn from Jesus to resort to special prayer when we are under
peculiar trial, or contemplate fresh endeavours for the Master’s glory?
Lord Jesus, teach us to pray.
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November 12, 2025 November 12th Morning
“The trial of your faith.” — 1 Peter 1:7
Faith untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials. Faith never prospers so well as when all things are against her: tempests are her trainers, and lightnings are her illuminators. When a calm reigns on the sea, spread the sails as you will, the ship moves not to its harbour; for on a slumbering ocean the keel sleeps too. Let the winds rush howling forth, and let the waters lift up themselves, then, though the vessel may rock, and her deck may be washed with waves, and her mast may creak under the pressure of the full and swelling sail, it is then that she makes headway towards her desired haven. No flowers wear so lovely a blue as those which grow at the foot of the frozen glacier; no stars gleam so brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky; no water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand; and no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs in adversity. Tried faith brings experience. You could not have…
believed your own weakness had you not been compelled
to pass through the rivers; and you would never have known God’s
strength had you not been supported amid the water-floods. Faith
increases in solidity, assurance, and intensity, the more it is exercised with
tribulation. Faith is precious, and its trial is precious too.
Let not this, however, discourage those who are young in faith. You will
have trials enough without seeking them: the full portion will be measured
out to you in due season. Meanwhile, if you cannot yet claim the result of
long experience, thank God for what grace you have; praise Him for that
degree of holy confidence whereunto you have attained: walk according to
that rule, and you shall yet have more and more of the blessing of God, till
your faith shall remove mountains and conquer impossibilities.
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November 11, 2025 November 11th Evening
“He shall choose our inheritance for us.” — Psalm 47:4
Believer, if your inheritance be a lowly one you should be satisfied with your earthly portion; for you may rest assured that it is the fittest for you. Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition. A ship of large tonnage is to be brought up the river; now, in one part of the stream there is a sandbank; should some one ask, “Why does the captain steer through the deep part of the channel and deviate so much from a straight line?” His answer would be, “Because I should not get my vessel into harbour at all if I did not keep to the deep channel.” So, it may be, you would run aground and suffer shipwreck, if your divine Captain did not steer you into the depths of affliction where waves of trouble follow each other in quick succession. Some plants die if they have too much sunshine. It may be that…
you are planted where you get but little,
you are put there by the loving Husbandman, because only in that
situation will you bring forth fruit unto perfection. Remember this, had
any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are,
divine love would have put you there. You are placed by God in the most
suitable circumstances, and if you had the choosing of your lot, you would
soon cry, “Lord, choose my inheritance for me, for by my self-will I am
pierced through with many sorrows.” Be content with such things as you
have, since the Lord has ordered all things for your good. Take up your
own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will
prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to
the glory of God. Down busy self, and proud impatience, it is not for you
to choose, but for the Lord of Love!
“Trials must and will befall —
But with humble faith to see
Love inscribed upon them all;
This is happiness to me.”
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November 11, 2025 November 11th Morning
“Underneath are the everlasting arms.” — Deuteronomy 33:27
God — the eternal God — is Himself our support at all times, and especially when we are sinking in deep trouble. There are seasons when the Christian sinks very low in humiliation. Under a deep sense of his great sinfulness, he is humbled before God till he scarcely knows how to pray, because he appears, in his own sight, so worthless. Well, child of God, remember that when thou art at thy worst and lowest, yet “underneath” thee “are everlasting arms.” Sin may drag thee ever so low, but Christ’s great atonement is still under all. You may have descended into the deeps, but you cannot have fallen so low as “the uttermost”; and to the uttermost He saves. Again, the Christian sometimes…
sinks very deeply in sore trial
from without. Every earthly prop is cut away. What then? Still underneath
him are “the everlasting arms.” He cannot fall so deep in distress and
affliction but what the covenant grace of an ever-faithful God will still
encircle him. The Christian may be sinking under trouble from within
through fierce conflict, but even then he cannot be brought so low as to be
beyond the reach of the “everlasting arms” — they are underneath him;
and, while thus sustained, all Satan’s efforts to harm him avail nothing.
This assurance of support is a comfort to any weary but earnest worker in
the service of God. It implies a promise of strength for each day, grace for
each need, and power for each duty. And, further, when death comes, the
promise shall still hold good. When we stand in the midst of Jordan, we
shall be able to say with David, “I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me.”
We shall descend into the grave, but we shall go no lower, for the eternal
arms prevent our further fall. All through life, and at its close, we shall be
upheld by the “everlasting arms” — arms that neither flag nor lose their
strength, for “the everlasting God fainteth not, neither is weary.”
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November 10, 2025 November 10th Evening
“It is enough for the disciple that he be as His Master.” — Matthew 10:25
No one will dispute this statement, for it would be unseemly for the servant to be exalted above his Master. When our Lord was on earth, what was the treatment He received? Were His claims acknowledged, His instructions followed, His perfections worshipped, by those whom He came to bless? No; “He was despised and rejected of men.” Outside the camp was His place: cross-bearing was His occupation. Did the world yield Him solace and rest? “Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay His head.” This inhospitable country afforded Him no shelter: it cast Him out and crucified Him. Such — if you are a follower of Jesus, and maintain a consistent, Christ-like walk and conversation — you must…
expect to be the lot of that
part of your spiritual life which, in its outward development, comes under
the observation of men. They will treat it as they treated the Saviour —
they will despise it. Dream not that worldlings will admire you, or that the
more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people
will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they
value the jewel in the rough? “If they have called the Master of the house
Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of His household?” If we
were more like Christ, we should be more hated by His enemies. It were a
sad dishonour to a child of God to be the world’s favourite. It is a very ill
omen to hear a wicked world clap its hands and shout “Well done” to the
Christian man. He may begin to look to his character, and wonder whether
he has not been doing wrong, when the unrighteous give him their
approbation. Let us be true to our Master, and have no friendship with a
blind and base world which scorns and rejects Him. Far be it from us to
seek a crown of honour where our Lord found a coronet of thorn.
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November 10, 2025 November 10th Morning
“The eternal God is thy refuge.” — Deuteronomy 33:27
The word refuge may be translated “mansion,” or “abiding-place,” which gives the thought that God is our abode, our home. There is a fulness and sweetness in the metaphor, for dear to our hearts is our home, although it be the humblest cottage, or the scantiest garret; and dearer far is our blessed God, in whom we live, and move, and have our being. It is at home that we feel safe: we shut the world out and dwell in quiet security. So when we are with our God we “fear no evil.” He is our shelter and retreat, our abiding refuge. At home, we take our rest; it is there we find repose after the fatigue and toil of the day. And so our hearts find rest in God, when, wearied with life’s conflict, we turn to Him, and our soul dwells at ease. At home, also, we let our hearts loose; we are not afraid of being misunderstood, nor of…
our words being misconstrued. So when we are with
God we can commune freely with Him, laying open all our hidden desires;
for if the “secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him,” the secrets of
them that fear Him ought to be, and must be, with their Lord. Home, too,
is the place of our truest and purest happiness: and it is in God that our
hearts find their deepest delight. We have joy in Him which far surpasses
all other joy. It is also for home that we work and labour. The thought of it
gives strength to bear the daily burden, and quickens the fingers to perform
the task; and in this sense we may also say that God is our home. Love to
Him strengthens us. We think of Him in the person of His dear Son; and a
glimpse of the suffering face of the Redeemer constrains us to labour in His
cause. We feel that we must work, for we have brethren yet to be saved,
and we have our Father’s heart to make glad by bringing home His
wandering sons; we would fill with holy mirth the sacred family among
whom we dwell. Happy are those who have thus the God of Jacob for
their refuge!
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