Morning and Evening with Charles Spurgeon

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October 14, 2024 October 9th Evening
“But He answered her not a word.” — Matthew 15:23
Genuine seekers who as yet have not obtained the blessing, may take comfort from the story before us. The Saviour did not at once bestow the blessing, even though the woman had great faith in Him. He intended to give it, but He waited awhile. “He answered her not a word.” Were not her prayers good? Never better in the world. Was not her case needy? Sorrowfully needy. Did she not feel her need sufficiently? She felt it overwhelmingly. Was she not earnest enough? She was intensely so. Had she no faith? She had such a high degree of it that even Jesus wondered, and said, “O woman, great is thy faith.” See then, although it is true that faith brings peace, yet it does not always bring it instantaneously. There may be…
certain reasons calling for the trial of faith, rather than the reward
of faith. Genuine faith may be in the soul like a hidden seed, but as yet it
may not have budded and blossomed into joy and peace. A painful silence
from the Saviour is the grievous trial of many a seeking soul, but heavier
still is the affliction of a harsh cutting reply such as this, “It is not meet to
take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.” Many in waiting upon the
Lord find immediate delight, but this is not the case with all. Some, like the
jailer, are in a moment turned from darkness to light, but others are plants
of slower growth. A deeper sense of sin may be given to you instead of a
sense of pardon, and in such a case you will have need of patience to bear
the heavy blow. Ah! poor heart, though Christ beat and bruise thee, or
even slay thee, trust Him; though He should give thee an angry word,
believe in the love of His heart. Do not, I beseech thee, give up seeking or
trusting my Master, because thou hast not yet obtained the conscious joy
which thou longest for. Cast thyself on Him, and perseveringly depend
even where thou canst not rejoicingly hope.
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October 14, 2024 October 9th Morning
“Able to keep you from falling.” — Jude 24
In some sense the path to heaven is very safe, but in other respects there is no road so dangerous. It is beset with difficulties. One false step (and how easy it is to take that if grace be absent), and down we go. What a slippery path is that which some of us have to tread! How many times have we to exclaim with the Psalmist, “My feet were almost gone, my steps had well nigh slipped.” If we were strong, sure-footed mountaineers, this would not matter so much; but in ourselves, how weak we are! In the best roads we soon falter, in the smoothest paths we quickly stumble. These feeble knees of ours can scarcely support our tottering weight. A straw may throw us, and a pebble can wound us; we are mere children tremblingly taking our first steps in the walk of faith, our heavenly Father holds us by the arms or we should soon be down. Oh, if we are kept from…
falling, how must we bless the patient power which watches over us day
by day! Think, how prone we are to sin, how apt to choose danger, how
strong our tendency to cast ourselves down, and these reflections will
make us sing more sweetly than we have ever done, “Glory be to Him,
who is able to keep us from falling.” We have many foes who try to push
us down. The road is rough and we are weak, but in addition to this,
enemies lurk in ambush, who rush out when we least expect them, and
labour to trip us up, or hurl us down the nearest precipice. Only an
Almighty arm can preserve us from these unseen foes, who are seeking to
destroy us. Such an arm is engaged for our defence. He is faithful that hath
promised, and He is able to keep us from falling, so that with a deep sense
of our utter weakness, we may cherish a firm belief in our perfect safety,
and say, with joyful confidence,
“Against me earth and hell combine, But on my side is power divine; Jesus is all, and He is mine!”
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October 14, 2024 October 8th Evening
“Praying in the Holy Ghost.” — Jude 20
Mark the grand characteristic of true prayer — “In the Holy Ghost.” The
seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven’s storehouse. Only
the prayer which comes from God can go to God. We must shoot the
Lord’s arrows back to Him. That desire which He writes upon our heart
will move His heart and bring down a blessing, but the desires of the flesh
have no power with Him.
Praying in the Holy Ghost is praying in fervency. Cold prayers ask the Lord not to hear them. Those who do not plead with fervency, plead not at all. As well speak of lukewarm fire as of lukewarm prayer — it is essential that it be red hot. It is praying perseveringly. The true suppliant gathers force as he proceeds, and grows more fervent when God delays to answer. The longer the gate is closed, the more…
vehemently does he use the
knocker, and the longer the angel lingers the more resolved is he that he will
never let him go without the blessing. Beautiful in God’s sight is tearful,
agonizing, unconquerable importunity. It means praying humbly, for the
Holy Spirit never puffs us up with pride. It is His office to convince of
sin, and so to bow us down in contrition and brokenness of spirit. We shall
never sing Gloria in excelsis except we pray to God De profundis: out of
the depths must we cry, or we shall never behold glory in the highest. It is
loving prayer. Prayer should be perfumed with love, saturated with love
— love to our fellow saints, and love to Christ. Moreover, it must be a
prayer full of faith. A man prevails only as he believes. The Holy Spirit is
the author of faith, and strengthens it, so that we pray believing God’s
promise. O that this blessed combination of excellent graces, priceless and
sweet as the spices of the merchant, might be fragrant within us because
the Holy Ghost is in our hearts! Most blessed Comforter, exert Thy
mighty power within us, helping our infirmities in prayer.
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October 14, 2024 October 8th Morning
“Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.” — Luke 5:4
We learn from this narrative, the necessity of human agency. The draught of fishes was miraculous, yet neither the fisherman nor his boat, nor his fishing tackle were ignored; but all were used to take the fishes. So in the saving of souls, God worketh by means; and while the present economy of grace shall stand, God will be pleased by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. When God worketh without instruments, doubtless He is glorified; but He hath Himself selected the plan of instrumentality as being that by which He is most magnified in the earth. Means of themselves are utterly unavailing. “Master, we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing.” What was the reason of this? Were they not…
fishermen plying their special calling? Verily, they were no raw hands;
they understood the work. Had they gone about the toil unskillfully? No.
Had they lacked industry? No, they had toiled. Had they lacked
perseverance? No, they had toiled all the night. Was there a deficiency of
fish in the sea? Certainly not, for as soon as the Master came, they swam
to the net in shoals. What, then, is the reason? Is it because there is no
power in the means of themselves apart from the presence of Jesus?
“Without Him we can do nothing.” But with Christ we can do all things.
Christ’s presence confers success. Jesus sat in Peter’s boat, and His will,
by a mysterious influence, drew the fish to the net. When Jesus is lifted up
in His Church, His presence is the Church’s power — the shout of a king
is in the midst of her. “I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me.” Let
us go out this morning on our work of soul fishing, looking up in faith, and
around us in solemn anxiety. Let us toil till night comes, and we shall not
labour in vain, for He who bids us let down the net, will fill it with fishes.
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October 14, 2024 October 7th Evening
“Now on whom dost thou trust?” — Isaiah 36:5
Reader, this is an important question. Listen to the Christian’s answer, and see if it is yours. “On whom dost thou trust?” “I trust,” says the Christian, “in a triune God. I trust the Father, believing that He has chosen me from before the foundations of the world; I trust Him to provide for me in providence, to teach me, to guide me, to correct me if need be, and to bring me home to His own house where the many mansions are. I trust the Son. Very God of very God is He — the man Christ Jesus. I trust in Him to take away all my sins by His own sacrifice, and to adorn me with His perfect righteousness. I trust Him to be my Intercessor, to present my prayers and desires before His Father’s throne, and I trust Him to be my Advocate at the last great day, to plead my cause, and to justify me. I trust Him for…
what He is, for what He has done, and for what He has promised
yet to do. And I trust the Holy Spirit — He has begun to save me from my
inbred sins; I trust Him to drive them all out; I trust Him to curb my
temper, to subdue my will, to enlighten my understanding, to check my
passions, to comfort my despondency, to help my weakness, to illuminate
my darkness; I trust Him to dwell in me as my life, to reign in me as my
King, to sanctify me wholly, spirit, soul, and body, and then to take me up
to dwell with the saints in light for ever.”
Oh, blessed trust! To trust Him whose power will never be exhausted,
whose love will never wane, whose kindness will never change, whose
faithfulness will never fail, whose wisdom will never be nonplussed, and
whose perfect goodness can never know a diminution! Happy art thou,
reader, if this trust is thine! So trusting, thou shalt enjoy sweet peace now,
and glory hereafter, and the foundation of thy trust shall never be removed.
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October 14, 2024 October 7th Morning
“Wherefore hast Thou afflicted Thy servant?” — Numbers 11:11
Our heavenly Father sends us frequent troubles to try our faith. If our faith be worth anything, it will stand the test. Gilt is afraid of fire, but gold is not: the paste gem dreads to be touched by the diamond, but the true jewel fears no test. It is a poor faith which can only trust God when friends are true, the body full of health, and the business profitable; but that is true faith which holds by the Lord’s faithfulness when friends are gone, when the body is sick, when spirits are depressed, and the light of our Father’s countenance is hidden. A faith which can say, in the direst trouble, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him,” is heaven-born faith. The Lord afflicts His servants to glorify Himself, for He is…
greatly glorified in
the graces of His people, which are His own handiwork. When “tribulation
worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope,” the
Lord is honoured by these growing virtues. We should never know the
music of the harp if the strings were left untouched; nor enjoy the juice of
the grape if it were not trodden in the winepress; nor discover the sweet
perfume of cinnamon if it were not pressed and beaten; nor feel the
warmth of fire if the coals were not utterly consumed. The wisdom and
power of the great Workman are discovered by the trials through which
His vessels of mercy are permitted to pass. Present afflictions tend also to
heighten future joy. There must be shades in the picture to bring out the
beauty of the lights. Could we be so supremely blessed in heaven, if we
had not known the curse of sin and the sorrow of earth? Will not peace be
sweeter after conflict, and rest more welcome after toil? Will not the
recollection of past sufferings enhance the bliss of the glorified? There are
many other comfortable answers to the question with which we opened
our brief meditation, let us muse upon it all day long.
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October 06, 2024 October 6th Morning
“Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst.” — John 4:14
He who is a believer in Jesus finds enough in his Lord to satisfy him now, and to content him for evermore. The believer is not the man whose days are weary for want of comfort, and whose nights are long from absence of heart-cheering thought, for he finds in religion such a spring of joy, such a fountain of consolation, that he is content and happy. Put him in a dungeon and he will find good company; place him in a barren wilderness, he will eat the bread of heaven; drive him away from friendship, he will meet the “friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” Blast all his gourds, and he will find shadow beneath the Rock of Ages; sap the foundation of his earthly hopes, but his…
heart will still be fixed, trusting in the Lord. The
heart is as insatiable as the grave till Jesus enters it, and then it is a cup full
to overflowing. There is such a fulness in Christ that He alone is the
believer’s all. The true saint is so completely satisfied with the
all-sufficiency of Jesus that he thirsts no more — except it be for deeper
draughts of the living fountain. In that sweet manner, believer, shalt thou
thirst; it shall not be a thirst of pain, but of loving desire; thou wilt find it a
sweet thing to be panting after a fuller enjoyment of Jesus’ love. One in
days of yore said, “I have been sinking my bucket down into the well full
often, but now my thirst after Jesus has become so insatiable, that I long
to put the well itself to my lips, and drink right on.” Is this the feeling of
thine heart now, believer? Dost thou feel that all thy desires are satisfied in
Jesus, and that thou hast no want now, but to know more of Him;, and to
have closer fellowship with Him? Then come continually to the fountain,
and take of the water of life freely. Jesus will never think you take too
much, but will ever welcome you, saying, “Drink, yea, drink abundantly,
O beloved.”
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October 05, 2024 October 5th Evening
“He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.” — Mark 16:16
Mr. MacDonald asked the inhabitants of the island of St. Kilda how a man must be saved. An old man replied, “We shall be saved if we repent, and forsake our sins, and turn to God.” “Yes,” said a middle-aged female, “and with a true heart too.” “Ay,” rejoined a third, “and with prayer”; and, added a fourth, “It must be the prayer of the heart.” “And we must be diligent too,” said a fifth, “in keeping the commandments.” Thus, each having contributed his mite, feeling that a very decent creed had been made up, they all looked and listened for the preacher’s approbation, but they had aroused his deepest pity. The carnal mind always maps out for itself a way in which self can work and become great, but the Lord’s way is quite the reverse. Believing and being baptized are no…
matters of merit to be
gloried in — they are so simple that boasting is excluded, and free grace
bears the palm. It may be that the reader is unsaved — what is the reason?
Do you think the way of salvation as laid down in the text to be dubious?
How can that be when God has pledged His own word for its certainty?
Do you think it too easy? Why, then, do you not attend to it? Its ease
leaves those without excuse who neglect it. To believe is simply to trust,
to depend, to rely upon Christ Jesus. To be baptized is to submit to the
ordinance which our Lord fulfilled at Jordan, to which the converted ones
submitted at Pentecost, to which the jailer yielded obedience the very night
of his conversion. The outward sign saves not, but it sets forth to us our
death, burial, and resurrection with Jesus, and, like the Lord’s Supper, is
not to be neglected. Reader, do you believe in Jesus? Then, dear friend,
dismiss your fears, you shall be saved. Are you still an unbeliever, then
remember there is but one door, and if you will not enter by it you will
perish in your sins.
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October 05, 2024 October 5th Morning
“He arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights.” — 1 Kings 19:8
All the strength supplied to us by our gracious God is meant for service, not for wantonness or boasting. When the prophet Elijah found the cake baked on the coals, and the cruse of water placed at his head, as he lay under the juniper tree, he was no gentleman to be gratified with dainty fare that he might stretch himself at his ease; far otherwise, he was commissioned to go forty days and forty nights in the strength of it, journeying towards Horeb, the mount of God. When the Master invited the disciples to “Come and dine” with Him, after the feast was concluded He said to Peter, “Feed my sheep”; further adding, “Follow me.” Even thus it is with us; we eat the bread of heaven, that we may expend our strength in the Master’s service. We come to…
the passover, and eat of the
paschal lamb with loins girt, and staff in hand, so as to start off at once
when we have satisfied our hunger. Some Christians are for living on
Christ, but are not so anxious to live for Christ. Earth should be a
preparation for heaven; and heaven is the place where saints feast most
and work most. They sit down at the table of our Lord, and they serve
Him day and night in His temple. They eat of heavenly food and render
perfect service. Believer, in the strength you daily gain from Christ labour
for Him. Some of us have yet to learn much concerning the design of our
Lord in giving us His grace. We are not to retain the precious grains of
truth as the Egyptian mummy held the wheat for ages, without giving it an
opportunity to grow: we must sow it and water it. Why does the Lord
send down the rain upon the thirsty earth, and give the genial sunshine? Is
it not that these may all help the fruits of the earth to yield food for man?
Even so the Lord feeds and refreshes our souls that we may afterwards use
our renewed strength in the promotion of His glory.
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October 04, 2024 October 4th Evening
“If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” — 1 John 2:1
“If any man sin, we have an advocate.” Yes, though we sin, we have Him still. John does not say, “If any man sin he has forfeited his advocate,” but “we have an advocate,” sinners though we are. All the sin that a believer ever did, or can be allowed to commit, cannot destroy his interest in the Lord Jesus Christ, as his advocate. The name here given to our Lord is suggestive. “Jesus.” Ah! then He is an advocate such as we need, for Jesus is the name of one whose business and delight it is to save. “They shall call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins.” His sweetest name implies His success. Next, it is “Jesus Christ” — Christos, the anointed. This shows His authority to plead. The Christ has a right to…
plead, for He is the Father’s own appointed advocate and elected priest. If He were of our choosing He might fail, but if God hath laid help upon one that is mighty, we may safely lay our trouble where God has laid His help. He is Christ, and therefore authorized; He is Christ, and therefore qualified, for the anointing has fully fitted Him for His work. He can plead so as to move the heart of God and prevail. What words of tenderness, what sentences of persuasion will the anointed use when He stands up to plead for me! One more letter of His name remains, “Jesus Christ the righteous.” This is not only His character BUT His plea. It is His character, and if the Righteous One be my advocate, then my cause is good, or He would not have espoused it. It is His plea, for He meets the charge of unrighteousness against me by the plea that He is righteous. He declares Himself my substitute and puts His obedience to my account.
My soul, thou hast a friend well fitted to be thine advocate, He cannot but
succeed; leave thyself entirely in His hands.
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