Morning and Evening with Charles Spurgeon

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December 15, 2024 December 15th Evening
“And lay thy foundations with sapphires.” — Isaiah 54:11
Not only that which is seen of the church of God, but that which is unseen, is fair and precious. Foundations are out of sight, and so long as they are firm it is not expected that they should be valuable; but in Jehovah’s work everything is of a piece, nothing slurred, nothing mean. The deep foundations of the work of grace are as sapphires for preciousness, no human mind is able to measure their glory. We build upon the covenant of grace, which is firmer than adamant, and as enduring as jewels upon which age spends itself in vain. Sapphire foundations are eternal, and the covenant abides throughout the lifetime of the Almighty. Another foundation is the person of the Lord Jesus, which is clear and spotless, everlasting and beautiful as the sapphire; blending in one the deep blue of earth’s ever rolling ocean and the azure of its all embracing sky. Once might our Lord have been…
likened to the ruby as He stood covered
with His own blood, but now we see Him radiant with the soft blue of
love, love abounding, deep, eternal. Our eternal hopes are built upon the
justice and the faithfulness of God, which are clear and cloudless as the
sapphire. We are not saved by a compromise, by mercy defeating justice,
or law suspending its operations; no, we defy the eagle’s eye to detect a
flaw in the groundwork of our confidence — our foundation is of sapphire,
and will endure the fire.
The Lord Himself has laid the foundation of His people’s hopes. It is
matter for grave enquiry whether our hopes are built upon such a basis.
Good works and ceremonies are not a foundation of sapphires, but of
wood, hay, and stubble; neither are they laid by God, but by our own
conceit. Foundations will all be tried ere long: woe unto him whose lofty
tower shall come down with a crash, because based on a quicksand. He
who is built on sapphires may await storm or fire with equanimity, for he
shall abide the test.
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December 15, 2024 December 15th Morning
“Orpah kissed her mother-in-law; but Ruth clave unto her.” — Ruth 1:14
Both of them had an affection for Naomi, and therefore set out with her upon her return to the land of Judah. But the hour of test came; Naomi most unselfishly set before each of them the trials which awaited them, and bade them if they cared for ease and comfort to return to their Moabitish friends. At first both of them declared that they would cast in their lot with the Lord’s people; but upon still further consideration Orpah with much grief and a respectful kiss left her mother in law, and her people, and her God, and went back to her idolatrous friends, while Ruth with all her heart gave herself up to the God of her mother in law. It is one thing to love the ways of the Lord when all is fair, and quite another to cleave to them under all discouragements and difficulties. The kiss of outward profession is very cheap and easy, but the practical cleaving to the Lord, which must show…
itself in holy decision for truth and holiness, is not so small a matter. How stands the case with us, is our heart fixed upon Jesus, is the sacrifice bound with cords to the horns of the altar? Have we counted the cost, and are we solemnly ready to suffer all worldly loss for the Master’s sake? The after gain will be an abundant recompense, for Egypt’s treasures are not to be compared with the glory to be revealed. Orpah is heard of no more; in glorious ease and idolatrous pleasure her life melts into the gloom of death; but Ruth lives in history and in heaven, for grace has placed her in the noble line whence sprung the King of kings. Blessed among women shall those be who for Christ’s sake can renounce all; but forgotten and worse than forgotten shall those be who in the hour of temptation do violence to conscience and turn back unto the world. O that this morning we may not be content with the form of devotion, which may be no better than Orpah’s kiss, but may the Holy Spirit work in us a cleaving of our whole heart to our Lord Jesus.
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December 14, 2024 December 14th Evening
“I am crucified with Christ.” — Galatians 2:20
The Lord Jesus Christ acted in what He did as a great public representative person, and His dying upon the cross was the virtual dying of all His people. Then all His saints rendered unto justice what was due, and made an expiation to divine vengeance for all their sins. The apostle of the Gentiles delighted to think that as one of Christ’s chosen people, he died upon the cross in Christ. He did more than believe this doctrinally, he accepted it confidently, resting his hope upon it. He believed that by virtue of Christ’s death, he had satisfied divine justice, and found reconciliation with God. Beloved, what a blessed thing it is when the soul can, as it were, stretch itself upon the cross of Christ, and feel, “I am dead; the law has slain me, and I am therefore…
free from its power, because in my
Surety I have borne the curse, and in the person of my Substitute the
whole that the law could do, by way of condemnation, has been executed
upon me, for I am crucified with Christ.”
But Paul meant even more than this. He not only believed in Christ’s
death, and trusted in it, but he actually felt its power in himself in causing
the crucifixion of his old corrupt nature. When he saw the pleasures of sin,
he said, “I cannot enjoy these: I am dead to them.” Such is the experience
of every true Christian. Having received Christ, he is to this world as one
who is utterly dead. Yet, while conscious of death to the world, he can, at
the same time, exclaim with the apostle, “Nevertheless I live.” He is fully
alive unto God. The Christian’s life is a matchless riddle. No worldling can
comprehend it; even the believer himself cannot understand it. Dead, yet
alive! crucified with Christ, and yet at the same time risen with Christ in
newness of life! Union with the suffering, bleeding Saviour, and death to
the world and sin, are soul-cheering things. O for more enjoyment of them!
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December 14, 2024 December 14th Morning
“They go from strength to strength.” — Psalm 84:7
They go from strength to strength. There are various renderings of these words, but all of them contain the idea of progress.
Our own good translation of the authorized version is enough for us this morning. “They go from strength to strength.” That is, they grow stronger and stronger. Usually, if we are walking, we go from strength to weakness; we start fresh and in good order for our journey, but by-and-by the road is rough, and the sun is hot, we sit down by the wayside, and then again painfully pursue our weary way. But the Christian pilgrim having obtained fresh supplies of grace, is as vigorous after years of toilsome travel and struggle as when he first set out. He may not be quite so elate and buoyant, nor perhaps quite so hot and hasty in his zeal as he once was, but he is much…
stronger in all that constitutes real power, and travels, if
more slowly, far more surely. Some gray-haired veterans have been as firm
in their grasp of truth, and as zealous in diffusing it, as they were in their
younger days; but, alas, it must be confessed it is often otherwise, for the
love of many waxes cold and iniquity abounds, but this is their own sin
and not the fault of the promise which still holds good: “The youths shall
faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but they that wait
upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings
as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk and not
faint.” Fretful spirits sit down and trouble themselves about the future.
“Alas!” say they, “we go from affliction to affliction.” Very true, O thou
of little faith, but then thou goest from strength to strength also. Thou
shalt never find a bundle of affliction which has not bound up in the midst
of it sufficient grace. God will give the strength of ripe manhood with the
burden allotted to full-grown shoulders.
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December 13, 2024 December 13th Evening
“I will make thy windows of agates.” — Isaiah 54:12
The church is most instructively symbolized by a building erected by
heavenly power, and designed by divine skill. Such a spiritual house must
not be dark, for the Israelites had light in their dwellings; there must
therefore be windows to let the light in and to allow the inhabitants to gaze
abroad. These windows are precious as agates: the ways in which the
church beholds her Lord and heaven, and spiritual truth in general, are to be
had in the highest esteem. Agates are not the most transparent of gems,
they are but semi-pellucid at the best:
“Our knowledge of that life is small,
Our eye of faith is dim.”
Faith is one of these precious agate windows, but alas! it is often so misty and beclouded, that we see but darkly, and mistake much that we do see. Yet if we cannot…
gaze through windows of diamonds and know even as we
are known, it is a glorious thing to behold the altogether lovely One, even
though the glass be hazy as the agate. Experience is another of these dim
but precious windows, yielding to us a subdued religious light, in which we
see the sufferings of the Man of Sorrows, through our own afflictions. Our
weak eyes could not endure windows of transparent glass to let in the
Master’s glory, but when they are dimmed with weeping, the beams of the
Sun of Righteousness are tempered, and shine through the windows of
agate with a soft radiance inexpressibly soothing to tempted souls.
Sanctification, as it conforms us to our Lord, is another agate window.
Only as we become heavenly can we comprehend heavenly things. The
pure in heart see a pure God. Those who are like Jesus see Him as He is.
Because we are so little like Him, the window is but agate; because we are
somewhat like Him, it is agate. We thank God for what we have, and long
for more. When shall we see God and Jesus, and heaven and truth, face to
face?
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December 13, 2024 December 13th Morning
“Salt without prescribing how much.” — Ezra 7:22
Salt was used in every offering made by fire unto the Lord, and from its preserving and purifying properties it was the grateful emblem of divine grace in the soul. It is worthy of our attentive regard that, when Artaxerxes gave salt to Ezra the priest, he set no limit to the quantity, and we may be quite certain that when the King of kings distributes grace among His royal priesthood, the supply is not cut short by Him. Often are we straitened in ourselves, but never in the Lord. He who chooses to gather much manna will find that he may have as much as he desires. There is no such famine in Jerusalem that the citizens should eat their bread by weight and drink their water by measure. Some things in the economy of grace are measured; for instance…
our vinegar and gall are given us with such exactness that we
never have a single drop too much, but of the salt of grace no stint is made,
“Ask what thou wilt and it shall be given unto thee.” Parents need to lock
up the fruit cupboard, and the sweet jars, but there is no need to keep the
salt-box under lock and key, for few children will eat too greedily from
that. A man may have too much money, or too much honour, but he
cannot have too much grace. When Jeshurun waxed fat in the flesh, he
kicked against God, but there is no fear of a man’s becoming too full of
grace: a plethora of grace is impossible. More wealth brings more care, but
more grace brings more joy. Increased wisdom is increased sorrow, but
abundance of the Spirit is fulness of joy. Believer, go to the throne for a
large supply of heavenly salt. It will season thine afflictions, which are
unsavoury without salt; it will preserve thy heart which corrupts if salt be
absent, and it will kill thy sins even as salt kills reptiles. Thou needest
much; seek much, and have much.
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December 12, 2024 December 12th Evening
“They have dealt treacherously against the Lord.” — Hosea 5:7
Believer, here is a sorrowful truth! Thou art the beloved of the Lord, redeemed by blood, called by grace, preserved in Christ Jesus, accepted in the Beloved, on thy way to heaven, and yet, “thou hast dealt treacherously” with God, thy best friend; treacherously with Jesus, whose thou art; treacherously with the Holy Spirit, by whom thou hast been quickened unto life eternal! How treacherous you have been in the matter of vows and promises. Do you remember the love of your espousals, that happy time — the springtide of your spiritual life? Oh, how closely did you cling to your Master then! saying, “He shall never charge me with indifference; my feet shall never grow slow in the way of His service; I will not suffer my heart to wander after other loves; in Him is every store of sweetness ineffable. I give all up for my Lord Jesus’ sake.” Has it been so? Alas! if conscience speak, it will say, “He who promised so well has…
performed most ill. Prayer has oftentimes been slurred — it has been
short, but not sweet; brief, but not fervent. Communion with Christ has
been forgotten. Instead of a heavenly mind, there have been carnal cares,
worldly vanities and thoughts of evil. Instead of service, there has been
disobedience; instead of fervency, lukewarmness; instead of patience,
petulance; instead of faith, confidence in an arm of flesh; and as a soldier of
the cross there has been cowardice, disobedience, and desertion, to a very
shameful degree.” “Thou hast dealt treacherously.” Treachery to Jesus!
what words shall be used in denouncing it? Words little avail: let our
penitent thoughts execrate the sin which is so surely in us. Treacherous to
Thy wounds, O Jesus! Forgive us, and let us not sin again! How shameful
to be treacherous to Him who never forgets us, but who this day stands
with our names engraven on His breastplate before the eternal throne.
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December 12, 2024 December 12th Morning
“His ways are everlasting.” — Habakkuk 3:6
What He hath done at one time, He will do yet again. Man’s ways are variable, but God’s ways are everlasting. There are many reasons for this most comforting truth: among them are the following — the Lord’s ways are the result of wise deliberation; He ordereth all things according to the counsel of His own will. Human action is frequently the hasty result of passion, or fear, and is followed by regret and alteration; but nothing can take the Almighty by surprise, or happen otherwise than He has foreseen. His ways are the outgrowth of an immutable character, and in them the fixed and settled attributes of God are clearly to be seen. Unless the Eternal One Himself can undergo change, His ways, which are Himself in action, must remain for ever the same. Is He eternally just, gracious, faithful, wise, tender? — then His ways must ever be…
distinguished for the
same excellences. Beings act according to their nature: when those natures
change, their conduct varies also; but since God cannot know the shadow
of a turning, His ways will abide everlastingly the same. Moreover there is
no reason from without which could reverse the divine ways, since they
are the embodiment of irresistible might. The earth is said, by the prophet,
to be cleft with rivers, mountains tremble, the deep lifts up its hands, and
sun and moon stand still, when Jehovah marches forth for the salvation of
His people. Who can stay His hand, or say unto Him, What doest Thou?
But it is not might alone which gives stability; God’s ways are the
manifestation of the eternal principles of right, and therefore can never pass
away. Wrong breeds decay and involves ruin, but the true and the good
have about them a vitality which ages cannot diminish.
This morning let us go to our heavenly Father with confidence,
remembering that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever,
and in Him the Lord is ever gracious to His people.
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December 11, 2024 December 11th Evening
“Ye serve the Lord Christ.” — Colossians 3:24
To what choice order of officials was this word spoken? To kings who proudly boast a right divine? Ah, no! too often do they serve themselves or Satan, and forget the God whose sufferance permits them to wear their mimic majesty for their little hour. Speaks then the apostle to those so-called “right reverend fathers in God,” the bishops, or “the venerable the archdeacons”? No, indeed, Paul knew nothing of these mere inventions of man. Not even to pastors and teachers, or to the wealthy and esteemed among believers, was this word spoken, but to servants, ay, and to slaves. Among the toiling multitudes, the journeymen, the day labourers, the domestic servants, the drudges of the kitchen, the apostle found, as we find still, some of the Lord’s chosen, and to them he says, “Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.” This saying ennobles the…
weary routine of earthly employments,
and sheds a halo around the most humble occupations. To wash feet may
be servile, but to wash His feet is royal work. To unloose the shoe-latchet
is poor employ, but to unloose the great Master’s shoe is a princely
privilege. The shop, the barn, the scullery, and the smithy become temples
when men and women do all to the glory of God! Then “divine service” is
not a thing of a few hours and a few places, but all life becomes holiness
unto the Lord, and every place and thing, as consecrated as the tabernacle
and its golden candlestick.
“Teach me, my God and King, in all things Thee to see;
And what I do in anything to do it as to Thee.
All may of Thee partake, nothing can be so mean,
Which with this tincture, for Thy sake, will not grow bright and clean.
A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine;
Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
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December 11, 2024 December 11th Morning
“Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:24
Heaven is a place where we shall never sin; where we shall cease our constant watch against an indefatigable enemy, because there will be no tempter to ensnare our feet. There the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest. Heaven is the “undefiled inheritance”; it is the land of perfect holiness, and therefore of complete security. But do not the saints even on earth sometimes taste the joys of blissful security? The doctrine of God’s word is, that all who are in union with the Lamb are safe; that all the righteous shall hold on their way; that those who have committed their souls to the keeping of Christ shall find Him a faithful and immutable preserver. Sustained by such a doctrine we can enjoy security even on earth; not that high and glorious security which renders us free from every slip, but that…
holy security which arises from the sure promise of Jesus
that none who believe in Him shall ever perish, but shall be with Him
where He is. Believer, let us often reflect with joy on the doctrine of the
perseverance of the saints, and honour the faithfulness of our God by a
holy confidence in Him.
May our God bring home to you a sense of your safety in Christ Jesus!
May He assure you that your name is graven on His hand; and whisper in
your ear the promise, “Fear not, I am with thee.” Look upon Him, the
great Surety of the covenant, as faithful and true, and, therefore, bound and
engaged to present you, the weakest of the family, with all the chosen race,
before the throne of God; and in such a sweet contemplation you will
drink the juice of the spiced wine of the Lord’s pomegranate, and taste the
dainty fruits of Paradise. You will have an antepast of the enjoyments
which ravish the souls of the perfect saints above, if you can believe with
unstaggering faith that “faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it.”
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