Morning and Evening with Charles Spurgeon

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September 01, 2024 September 1st Morning
“Thou shalt guide me with Thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.” — Psalm 73:24
The Psalmist felt his need of divine guidance. He had just been discovering the foolishness of his own heart, and lest he should be constantly led astray by it, he resolved that God’s counsel should henceforth guide him. A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord. The blind man leans on his friend’s arm and reaches home in safety, and so would we give ourselves up implicitly to divine guidance, nothing doubting; assured that though we cannot see, it is always safe to trust the All-seeing God. “Thou shalt,” is a blessed expression of confidence. He was sure that the Lord would…
not
decline the condescending task. There is a word for thee, O believer; rest
thou in it. Be assured that thy God will be thy counsellor and friend; He
shall guide thee; He will direct all thy ways. In His written Word thou hast
this assurance in part fulfilled, for holy Scripture is His counsel to thee.
Happy are we to have God’s Word always to guide us! What were the
mariner without his compass? And what were the Christian without the
Bible? This is the unerring chart, the map in which every shoal is
described, and all the channels from the quicksands of destruction to the
haven of salvation mapped and marked by one who knows all the way.
Blessed be Thou, O God, that we may trust Thee to guide us now, and
guide us even to the end! After this guidance through life, the Psalmist
anticipates a divine reception at last — “and afterward receive me to
glory.” What a thought for thee, believer! God Himself will receive thee to
glory — thee! Wandering, erring, straying, yet He will bring thee safe at
last to glory! This is thy portion; live on it this day, and if perplexities
should surround thee, go in the strength of this text straight to the throne.
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August 31, 2024 August 31st Evening
“If we walk in the light, as He is in the light.” — John 1:7
As He is in the light! Can we ever attain to this? Shall we ever be able to walk as clearly in the light as He is whom we call “Our Father,” of whom it is written, “God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all”? Certainly, this is the model which it set before us, for the Saviour Himself said, “Be ye perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect”; and although we may feel that we can never rival the perfection of God, yet we are to seek after it, and never to be satisfied until we attain to it. The youthful artist, as he grasps his early pencil, can hardly hope to equal Raphael or Michael Angelo, but still, if he did not have a noble beau ideal before his mind, he would only…
attain to something very mean and ordinary. But
what is meant by the expression that the Christian is to walk in light as
God is in the light? We conceive it to import likeness, but not degree. We
are as truly in the light, we are as heartily in the light, we are as sincerely in
the light, as honestly in the light, though we cannot be there in the same
measure. I cannot dwell in the sun, it is too bright a place for my residence,
but I can walk in the light of the sun; and so, though I cannot attain to that
perfection of purity and truth which belongs to the Lord of hosts by
nature as the infinitely good, yet I can set the Lord always before me, and
strive, by the help of the indwelling Spirit, after conformity to His image.
That famous old commentator, John Trapp, says, “We may be in the light
as God is in the light for quality, but not for equality.” We are to have the
same light, and are as truly to have it and walk in it as God does, though,
as for equality with God in His holiness and purity, that must be left until
we cross the Jordan and enter into the perfection of the Most High. Mark
that the blessings of sacred fellowship and perfect cleansing are bound up
with walking in the light.
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August 31, 2024 August 31st Morning
“On mine arm shall they trust.” — Isaiah 51:5
In seasons of severe trial, the Christian has nothing on earth that he can trust to, and is therefore compelled to cast himself on his God alone. When his vessel is on its beam-ends, and no human deliverance can avail, he must simply and entirely trust himself to the providence and care of God. Happy storm that wrecks a man on such a rock as this! O blessed hurricane that drives the soul to God and God alone! There is no getting at our God sometimes because of the multitude of our friends; but when a man is so poor, so friendless, so helpless that he has nowhere else to turn, he flies into his Father’s arms, and is blessedly clasped therein! When he is burdened with troubles so pressing and so peculiar, that he cannot tell them to any but his God, he may be…
thankful for them; for he will learn
more of his Lord then than at any other time. Oh, tempest-tossed believer,
it is a happy trouble that drives thee to thy Father! Now that thou hast
only thy God to trust to, see that thou puttest thy full confidence in Him.
Dishonour not thy Lord and Master by unworthy doubts and fears; but be
strong in faith, giving glory to God. Show the world that thy God is worth
ten thousand worlds to thee. Show rich men how rich thou art in thy
poverty when the Lord God is thy helper. Show the strong man how
strong thou art in thy weakness when underneath thee are the everlasting
arms. Now is the time for feats of faith and valiant exploits. Be strong and
very courageous, and the Lord thy God shall certainly, as surely as He
built the heavens and the earth, glorify Himself in thy weakness, and
magnify his might in the midst of thy distress. The grandeur of the arch of
heaven would be spoiled if the sky were supported by a single visible
column, and your faith would lose its glory if it rested on anything
discernible by the carnal eye. May the Holy Spirit give you to rest in
Jesus this closing day of the month.
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August 30, 2024 August 30th Evening
“Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed.” — Jeremiah 17:14
“I have seen His ways, and will heal him.” — Isaiah 57:18
It is the sole prerogative of God to remove spiritual disease. Natural disease may be instrumentally healed by men, but even then the honour is to be given to God who giveth virtue unto medicine, and bestoweth power unto the human frame to cast off disease. As for spiritual sicknesses, these remain with the great Physician alone; He claims it as His prerogative, “I kill and I make alive, I wound and I heal”; and one of the Lord’s choice titles is Jehovah-Rophi, the Lord that healeth thee. “I will heal thee of thy wounds,” is a promise which could…
not come from the lip of man, but only
from the mouth of the eternal God. On this account the psalmist cried unto
the Lord, “O Lord, heal me, for my bones are sore vexed,” and again, “Heal
my soul, for I have sinned against thee.” For this, also, the godly praise the
name of the Lord, saying, “He healeth all our diseases.” He who made man
can restore man; He who was at first the creator of our nature can new
create it. What a transcendent comfort it is that in the person of Jesus
“dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily!” My soul, whatever thy
disease may be, this great Physician can heal thee. If He be God, there can
be no limit to His power. Come then with the blind eye of darkened
understanding, come with the limping foot of wasted energy, come with
the maimed hand of weak faith, the fever of an angry temper, or the ague of
shivering despondency, come just as thou art, for He who is God can
certainly restore thee of thy plague. None shall restrain the healing virtue
which proceeds from Jesus our Lord. Legions of devils have been made to
own the power of the beloved Physician, and never once has He been
baffled. All His patients have been cured in the past and shall be in the
future, and thou shalt be one among them, my friend, if thou wilt but rest
thyself in Him this night.
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August 30, 2024 August 30th Morning
“Wait on the Lord.” — Psalm 27:14
It may seem an easy thing to wait, but it is one of the postures which a Christian soldier learns not without years of teaching. Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God’s warriors than standing still. There are hours of perplexity when the most willing spirit, anxiously desirous to serve the Lord, knows not what part to take. Then what shall it do? Vex itself by despair? Fly back in cowardice, turn to the right hand in fear, or rush forward in presumption? No, but simply wait. Wait in prayer, however. Call upon God, and spread the case before Him; tell Him your difficulty, and plead His promise of aid. In dilemmas between one duty and another, it is sweet to be…
humble as a child, and wait with simplicity of
soul upon the Lord. It is sure to be well with us when we feel and know
our own folly, and are heartily willing to be guided by the will of God. But
wait in faith. Express your unstaggering confidence in Him; for unfaithful,
untrusting waiting, is but an insult to the Lord. Believe that if He keep you
tarrying even till midnight, yet He will come at the right time; the vision
shall come and shall not tarry. Wait in quiet patience, not rebelling because
you are under the affliction, but blessing your God for it. Never murmur
against the second cause, as the children of Israel did against Moses; never
wish you could go back to the world again, but accept the case as it is, and
put it as it stands, simply and with your whole heart, without any
self-will, into the hand of your covenant God, saying, “Now, Lord, not my
will, but Thine be done. I know not what to do; I am brought to
extremities, but I will wait until Thou shalt cleave the floods, or drive back
my foes. I will wait, if Thou keep me many a day, for my heart is fixed
upon Thee alone, O God, and my spirit waiteth for Thee in the full
conviction that Thou wilt yet be my joy and my salvation, my refuge and
my strong tower.”
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August 29, 2024 August 29th Morning
“Have mercy upon me, O God.” — Psalm 51:1
When Dr. Carey was suffering from a dangerous illness, the enquiry was
made, “If this sickness should prove fatal, what passage would you select
as the text for your funeral sermon?” He replied, “Oh, I feel that such a
poor sinful creature is unworthy to have anything said about him; but if a
funeral sermon must be preached, let it be from the words, ‘Have mercy
upon me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness; according unto the
multitude of Thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.’” In the same
spirit of humility he directed in his will that the following inscription and
nothing more should be cut on his gravestone: —
WILLIAM CAREY, BORN AUGUST 17th, 1761: DIED —
“A wretched, poor, and helpless worm
On Thy kind arms I fall.”
Only on the footing of free grace can the most experienced and most
honoured of the saints approach their God. The best of men are conscious
above all others that they are men at the best. Empty boats float high, but
heavily laden vessels are low in the water; mere professors can boast, but
true children of God cry for mercy upon their unprofitableness. We have
need that the Lord should have mercy upon our good works, our prayers,
our preachings, our alms-givings, and our holiest things. The blood was not
only sprinkled upon the doorposts of Israel’s dwelling houses, but upon
the sanctuary, the mercy-seat, and the altar, because as sin intrudes into
our holiest things, the blood of Jesus is needed to purify them from
defilement. If mercy be needed to be exercised towards our duties, what
shall be said of our sins? How sweet the remembrance that inexhaustible
mercy is waiting to be gracious to us, to restore our backslidings, and make
our broken bones rejoice!
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August 28, 2024 August 28th Evening
“Sing, O barren.” — Isaiah 54:1
Though we have brought forth some fruit unto Christ, and have a joyful hope that we are “plants of His own right hand planting,” yet there are times when we feel very barren. Prayer is lifeless, love is cold, faith is weak, each grace in the garden of our heart languishes and droops. We are like flowers in the hot sun, requiring the refreshing shower. In such a condition what are we to do? The text is addressed to us in just such a state. “Sing, O barren, break forth and cry aloud.” But what can I sing about? I cannot talk about the present, and even the past looks full of barrenness. Ah! I can sing of Jesus Christ. I can talk of…
visits which the Redeemer has aforetimes paid to me; or if not of these, I can magnify the great love wherewith He loved His people when He came from the heights of heaven for their redemption. I will go to the cross again. Come, my soul, heavy laden thou wast once, and thou didst lose thy burden there. Go to Calvary again. Perhaps that very cross which gave thee life may give thee fruitfulness. What is my barrenness? It is the platform for His fruit-creating power. What is my desolation? It is the black setting for the sapphire of His everlasting love. I will go in poverty, I will go in helplessness, I will go in all my shame and backsliding, I will tell Him that I am still His child, and in confidence in His faithful heart, even I, the barren one, will sing and cry aloud.
Sing, believer, for it will cheer thine own heart, and the hearts of other
desolate ones. Sing on, for now that thou art really ashamed of being
barren, thou wilt be fruitful soon; now that God makes thee loath to be
without fruit He will soon cover thee with clusters. The experience of our
barrenness is painful, but the Lord’s visitations are delightful. A sense of
our own poverty drives us to Christ, and that is where we need to be, for
in Him is our fruit found.
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August 28, 2024 August 28th Morning
“Oil for the light.” — Exodus 25:6
My soul, how much thou needest this, for thy lamp will not long continue to burn without it. Thy snuff will smoke and become an offence if light be gone, and gone it will be if oil be absent. Thou hast no oil well springing up in thy human nature, and therefore thou must go to them that sell and buy for thyself, or like the foolish virgins, thou wilt have to cry, “My lamp is gone out.” Even the consecrated lamps could not give light without oil; though they shone in the tabernacle they needed to be fed, though no rough winds blew upon them they required to be trimmed, and thy need is equally as great. Under the most happy circumstances thou canst not…
give
light for another hour unless fresh oil of grace be given thee.
It was not every oil that might be used in the Lord’s service; neither the
petroleum which exudes so plentifully from the earth, nor the produce of
fishes, nor that extracted from nuts would be accepted; one oil only was
selected, and that the best olive oil. Pretended grace from natural goodness,
fancied grace from priestly hands, or imaginary grace from outward
ceremonies will never serve the true saint of God; he knows that the Lord
would not be pleased with rivers of such oil. He goes to the olive-press of
Gethsemane, and draws his supplies from Him who was crushed therein.
The oil of gospel grace is pure and free from lees and dregs, and hence the
light which is fed thereon is clear and bright. Our churches are the
Saviour’s golden candelabra, and if they are to be lights in this dark world,
they must have much holy oil. Let us pray for ourselves, our ministers,
and our churches, that they may never lack oil for the light. Truth,
holiness, joy, knowledge, love, these are all beams of the sacred light, but
we cannot give them forth unless in private we receive oil from God the
Holy Ghost.
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August 27, 2024 August 27th Evening
“Into Thine hand I commit my spirit: Thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.” — Psalm 31:5
These words have been frequently used by holy men in their hour of departure. We may profitably consider them this evening. The object of the faithful man’s solicitude in life and death is not his body or his estate, but his spirit; this is his choice treasure — if this be safe, all is well. What is this mortal state compared with the soul? The believer commits his soul to the hand of his God; it came from Him, it is His own, He has aforetime sustained it, He is able to keep it, and it is most fit that He should receive it. All things are safe in Jehovah’s hands; what we entrust to the Lord will be secure, both now and in…
that day of days towards which we are
hastening. It is peaceful living, and glorious dying, to repose in the care of
heaven. At all times we should commit our all to Jesus’ faithful hand; then,
though life may hang on a thread, and adversities may multiply as the
sands of the sea, our soul shall dwell at ease, and delight itself in quiet
resting places.
“Thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.” Redemption is a solid
basis for confidence. David had not known Calvary as we have done, but
temporal redemption cheered him; and shall not eternal redemption yet
more sweetly console us? Past deliverances are strong pleas for present
assistance. What the Lord has done He will do again, for He changes not.
He is faithful to His promises, and gracious to His saints; He will not turn
away from His people.
“Though Thou slay me I will trust, Praise Thee even from the dust, Prove, and tell it as I prove,
Thine unutterable love.
Thou mayst chasten and correct,
But Thou never canst neglect;
Since the ransom price is paid,
On Thy love my hope is stay’d.”
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August 27, 2024 August 27th Morning
“How long will it be ere they believe me?” — Numbers 14:11
Strive with all diligence to keep out that monster unbelief. It so dishonours Christ, that He will withdraw His visible presence if we insult Him by indulging it. It is true it is a weed, the seeds of which we an never entirely extract from the soil, but we must aim at its root with zeal and perseverance. Among hateful things it is the most to be abhorred. Its injurious nature is so venomous that he that exerciseth it and he upon whom it is exercised are both hurt thereby. In thy case, O believer! it is most wicked, for the mercies of thy Lord in the past, increase thy guilt in doubting Him now. When thou dost distrust the Lord Jesus, He may well…
cry out, “Behold I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of
sheaves.” This is crowning His head with thorns of the sharpest kind. It is
very cruel for a well-beloved wife to mistrust a kind and faithful husband.
The sin is needless, foolish, and unwarranted. Jesus has never given the
slightest ground for suspicion, and it is hard to be doubted by those to
whom our conduct is uniformly affectionate and true. Jesus is the Son of
the Highest, and has unbounded wealth; it is shameful to doubt
Omnipotence and distrust all-sufficiency. The cattle on a thousand hills
will suffice for our most hungry feeding, and the granaries of heaven are
not likely to be emptied by our eating. If Christ were only a cistern, we
might soon exhaust His fulness, but who can drain a fountain? Myriads of
spirits have drawn their supplies from Him, and not one of them has
murmured at the scantiness of His resources. Away, then, with this lying
traitor unbelief, for his only errand is to cut the bonds of communion and
make us mourn an absent Saviour. Bunyan tells us that unbelief has “as
many lives as a cat:” if so, let us kill one life now, and continue the work
till the whole nine are gone. Down with thee, thou traitor, my heart abhors
thee.
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