Morning and Evening with Charles Spurgeon

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August 22, 2024 August 22nd Morning
“I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.” — Song of Solomon 5:8
Such is the language of the believer panting after present fellowship with Jesus, he is sick for his Lord. Gracious souls are never perfectly at ease except they are in a state of nearness to Christ; for when they are away from Him they lose their peace. The nearer to Him, the nearer to the perfect calm of heaven; the nearer to Him, the fuller the heart is, not only of peace, but of life, and vigour, and joy, for these all depend on constant intercourse with Jesus. What the sun is to the day, what the moon is to the night, what the dew is to the flower, such is Jesus Christ to us. What bread is to the hungry, clothing to the naked, the shadow of a great rock to the traveller in a weary land, such is…
Jesus Christ to us; and, therefore, if we
are not consciously one with Him, little marvel if our spirit cries in the
words of the Song, “I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find
my beloved, tell Him that I am sick of love.” This earnest longing after
Jesus has a blessing attending it: “Blessed are they that do hunger and
thirst after righteousness”; and therefore, supremely blessed are they who
thirst after the Righteous One. Blessed is that hunger, since it comes from
God: if I may not have the full-blown blessedness of being filled, I would
seek the same blessedness in its sweet bud-pining in emptiness and
eagerness till I am filled with Christ. If I may not feed on Jesus, it shall be
next door to heaven to hunger and thirst after Him. There is a hallowedness
about that hunger, since it sparkles among the beatitudes of our Lord. But
the blessing involves a promise. Such hungry ones “shall be filled” with
what they are desiring. If Christ thus causes us to long after Himself, He
will certainly satisfy those longings; and when He does come to us, as
come He will, oh, how sweet it will be!
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August 21, 2024 August 21st Evening
“I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye Me in vain.” — Isaiah 45:19
We may gain much solace by considering what God has not said. What He has said is inexpressibly full of comfort and delight; what He has not said is scarcely less rich in consolation. It was one of these “said nots” which preserved the kingdom of Israel in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, for “the Lord said not that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven.” 2 Kings 14:27. In our text we have an assurance that God will answer prayer, because He hath “not said unto the seed of Israel, Seek ye Me in vain.” You who write bitter things against yourselves should remember that, let your doubts and fears say what they will, if God has not cut you off from mercy, there is no…
room for despair: even the voice of
conscience is of little weight if it be not seconded by the voice of God.
What God has said, tremble at! But suffer not your vain imaginings to
overwhelm you with despondency and sinful despair. Many timid persons
have been vexed by the suspicion that there may be something in God’s
decree which shuts them out from hope, but here is a complete refutation
to that troublesome fear, for no true seeker can be decreed to wrath. “I
have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth; I have not said,”
even in the secret of my unsearchable decree, “Seek ye Me in vain.” God
has clearly revealed that He will hear the prayer of those who call upon
Him, and that declaration cannot be contravened. He has so firmly, so
truthfully, so righteously spoken, that there can be no room for doubt. He
does not reveal His mind in unintelligible words, but He speaks plainly and
positively, “Ask, and ye shall receive.” Believe, O trembler, this sure truth
— that prayer must and shall be heard, and that never, even in the secrets
of eternity, has the Lord said unto any living soul, “Seek ye Me in vain.”
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August 21, 2024 August 21st Morning
“He that watereth shall be watered also himself.” — Proverbs 11:25
We are here taught the great lesson, that to get, we must give; that to accumulate, we must scatter; that to make ourselves happy, we must make others happy; and that in order to become spiritually vigorous, we must seek the spiritual good of others. In watering others, we are ourselves watered. How? Our efforts to be useful, bring out our powers for usefulness. We have latent talents and dormant faculties, which are brought to light by exercise. Our strength for labour is hidden even from ourselves, until we venture forth to fight the Lord’s battles, or to climb the mountains of difficulty. We do not know what tender sympathies we possess until we try to dry the widow’s tears, and soothe the orphan’s grief. We often find…
in attempting to teach others, that we gain instruction for ourselves.
Oh, what gracious lessons some of us have learned at sick beds! We went
to teach the Scriptures, we came away blushing that we knew so little of
them. In our converse with poor saints, we are taught the way of God
more perfectly for ourselves and get a deeper insight into divine truth. So
that watering others makes us humble. We discover how much grace there
is where we had not looked for it; and how much the poor saint may
outstrip us in knowledge. Our own comfort is also increased by our
working for others. We endeavour to cheer them, and the consolation
gladdens our own heart. Like the two men in the snow; one chafed the
other’s limbs to keep him from dying, and in so doing kept his own blood
in circulation, and saved his own life. The poor widow of Sarepta gave
from her scanty store a supply for the prophet’s wants, and from that day
she never again knew what want was. Give then, and it shall be given unto
you, good measure, pressed down, and running over.
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August 20, 2024 August 20th Evening
“And they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.” — Nehemiah 3:8
Cities well fortified have broad walls, and so had Jerusalem in her glory. The New Jerusalem must, in like manner, be surrounded and preserved by a broad wall of nonconformity to the world, and separation from its customs and spirit. The tendency of these days break down the holy barrier, and make the distinction between the church and the world merely nominal. Professors are no longer strict and Puritanical, questionable literature is read on all hands, frivolous pastimes are currently indulged, and a general laxity threatens to deprive the Lord’s peculiar people of those sacred singularities which separate them from sinners. It will be an ill day for the church and the world when the…
proposed amalgamation shall be
complete, and the sons of God and the daughters of men shall be as one:
then shall another deluge of wrath be ushered in. Beloved reader, be it your
aim in heart, in word, in dress, in action to maintain the broad wall,
remembering that the friendship of this world is enmity against God.
The broad wall afforded a pleasant place of resort for the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, from which they could command prospects of the surrounding
country. This reminds us of the Lord’s exceeding broad commandments, in
which we walk at liberty in communion with Jesus, overlooking the scenes
of earth, and looking out towards the glories of heaven. Separated from the
world, and denying ourselves all ungodliness and fleshly lusts, we are
nevertheless not in prison, nor restricted within narrow bounds; nay, we
walk at liberty, because we keep His precepts. Come, reader, this evening
walk with God in His statutes. As friend met friend upon the city wall, so
meet thou thy God in the way of holy prayer and meditation. The
bulwarks of salvation thou hast a right to traverse, for thou art a freeman
of the royal burgh, a citizen of the metropolis of the universe.
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August 20, 2024 August 20th Morning
“The sweet psalmist of Israel.” — 2 Samuel 23:1
Among all the saints whose lives are recorded in Holy Writ, David possesses an experience of the most striking, varied, and instructive character. In his history we meet with trials and temptations not to be discovered, as a whole, in other saints of ancient times, and hence he is all the more suggestive a type of our Lord. David knew the trials of all ranks and conditions of men. Kings have their troubles, and David wore a crown: the peasant has his cares, and David handled a shepherd’s crook: the wanderer has many hardships, and David abode in the caves of Engedi: the captain has his difficulties, and David found…
the sons of Zeruiah too hard
for him. The psalmist was also tried in his friends, his counsellor
Ahithophel forsook him, “He that eateth bread with me, hath lifted up his
heel against me.” His worst foes were they of his own household: his
children were his greatest affliction. The temptations of poverty and
wealth, of honour and reproach, of health and weakness, all tried their
power upon him. He had temptations from without to disturb his peace,
and from within to mar his joy. David no sooner escaped from one trial
than he fell into another; no sooner emerged from one season of
despondency and alarm, than he was again brought into the lowest depths,
and all God’s waves and billows rolled over him. It is probably from this
cause that David’s psalms are so universally the delight of experienced
Christians. Whatever our frame of mind, whether ecstasy or depression,
David has exactly described our emotions. He was an able master of the
human heart, because he had been tutored in the best of all schools — the
school of heart-felt, personal experience. As we are instructed in the same
school, as we grow matured in grace and in years, we increasingly
appreciate David’s psalms, and find them to be “green pastures.” My
soul, let David’s experience cheer and counsel thee this day.
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August 19, 2024 August 19th Evening
“Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for Thou art my strength.” — Psalm 31:4
Our spiritual foes are of the serpent’s brood, a and seek to ensnare us by subtlety. The prayer before us supposes the possibility of the believer being caught like a bird. So deftly does the fowler do his work, that simple ones are soon surrounded by the net. The text asks that even out of Satan’s meshes the captive one may be delivered; this is a proper petition, and one which can be granted: from between the jaws of the lion, and out of the belly of hell, can eternal love rescue the saint. It may need a sharp pull to save a soul from the net of temptations, and a mighty pull to extricate a man from the snares of malicious cunning, but the Lord is…
equal
to every emergency, and the most skilfully placed nets of the hunter shall
never be able to hold His chosen ones. Woe unto those who are so clever at
net laying; they who tempt others shall be destroyed themselves.
“For Thou art my strength.” What an inexpressible sweetness is to be
found in these few words! How joyfully may we encounter toils, and how
cheerfully may we endure sufferings, when we can lay hold upon celestial
strength. Divine power will rend asunder all the toils of our enemies,
confound their politics, and frustrate their knavish tricks; he is a happy
man who has such matchless might engaged upon his side. Our own
strength would be of little service when embarrassed in the nets of base
cunning, but the Lord’s strength is ever available; we have but to invoke it,
and we shall find it near at hand. If by faith we are depending alone upon
the strength of the mighty God of Israel, we may use our holy reliance as a
plea in supplication.
“Lord, evermore Thy face we seek:
Tempted we are, and poor, and weak;
Keep us with lowly hearts, and meek.
Let us not fall. Let us not fall.”
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August 19, 2024 August 19th Morning
“He shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord.” — Micah 5:4
Christ’s reign in His Church is that of a shepherd-king. He has supremacy,
but it is the superiority of a wise and tender shepherd over his needy and
loving flock; He commands and receives obedience, but it is the willing
obedience of the well-cared-for sheep, rendered joyfully to their beloved
Shepherd, whose voice they know so well. He rules by the force of love
and the energy of goodness.
His reign is practical in its character. It is said, “He shall stand and feed.” The great Head of the Church is actively engaged in providing for His people. He does not…
sit down upon the throne in empty state, or hold a
sceptre without wielding it in government. No, He stands and feeds. The
expression “feed,” in the original, is like an analogous one in the Greek,
which means to shepherdize, to do everything expected of a shepherd: to
guide, to watch, to preserve, to restore, to tend, as well as to feed.
His reign is continual in its duration. It is said, “He shall stand and feed”;
not “He shall feed now and then, and leave His position”; not, “He shall
one day grant a revival, and then next day leave His Church to barrenness.”
His eyes never slumber, and His hands never rest; His heart never ceases
to beat with love, and His shoulders are never weary of carrying His
people’s burdens.
His reign is effectually powerful in its action; “He shall feed in the strength
of Jehovah.” Wherever Christ is, there is God; and whatever Christ does is
the act of the Most High. Oh! it is a joyful truth to consider that He who
stands to-day representing the interests of His people is very God of very
God, to whom every knee shall bow. Happy are we who belong to such a
shepherd, whose humanity communes with us, and whose divinity
protects us. Let us worship and bow down before Him as the people of
His pasture.
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August 18, 2024 August 18th Evening
“And they gave Him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but He received it not.” — Mark 15:23
A golden truth is couched in the fact that the Saviour put the myrrhed wine-cup from His lips. On the heights of heaven the Son of God stood of old, and as He looked down upon our globe He measured the long descent to the utmost depths of human misery; He cast up the total of all the agonies which expiation would require, and abated not a jot. He solemnly determined that to offer a sufficient atoning sacrifice He must go the whole way, from the highest to the lowest, from the throne of highest glory to the cross of deepest woe. This myrrhed cup, with its soporific influence, would have stayed Him within a little of the utmost limit of misery, therefore He refused it. He would not stop short of all He had undertaken to suffer for His people. Ah, how many of us have…
pined after reliefs to
our grief which would have been injurious to us! Reader, did you never
pray for a discharge from hard service or suffering with a petulant and
wilful eagerness? Providence has taken from you the desire of your eyes
with a stroke. Say, Christian, if it had been said, “If you so desire it, that
loved one of yours shall live, but God will be dishonoured,” could you
have put away the temptation, and said, “Thy will be done”? Oh, it is
sweet to be able to say, “My Lord, if for other reasons I need not suffer,
yet if I can honour Thee more by suffering, and if the loss of my earthly all
will bring Thee glory, then so let it be. I refuse the comfort, if it comes in
the way of Thine honour.” O that we thus walked more in the footsteps of
our Lord, cheerfully enduring trial for His sake, promptly and willingly
putting away the thought of self and comfort when it would interfere with
our finishing the work which He has given us to do. Great grace is needed,
but great grace is provided.
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August 18, 2024 August 18th Morning
“Strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord’s house.” — Jeremiah 51:51
In this account the faces of the Lord’s people were covered with shame, for it was a terrible thing that men should intrude into the Holy Place reserved for the priests alone. Everywhere about us we see like cause for sorrow. How many ungodly men are now educating with the view of entering into the ministry! What a crying sin is that solemn lie by which our whole population is nominally comprehended in a National Church! How fearful it is that ordinances should be pressed upon the unconverted, and that among the more enlightened churches of our land there should be such laxity of discipline. If the thousands who will read this portion shall…
all take this matter before the Lord Jesus this day, He will interfere and
avert the evil which else will come upon His Church. To adulterate the
Church is to pollute a well, to pour water upon fire, to sow a fertile field
with stones. May we all have grace to maintain in our own proper way the
purity of the Church, as being an assembly of believers, and not a nation,
an unsaved community of unconverted men.
Our zeal must, however, begin at home. Let us examine ourselves as to our
right to eat at the Lord’s table. Let us see to it that we have on our
wedding garment, lest we ourselves be intruders in the Lord’s sanctuaries.
Many are called, but few are chosen; the way is narrow, and the gate is
strait. O for grace to come to Jesus aright, with the faith of God’s elect. He
who smote Uzzah for touching the ark is very jealous of His two
ordinances; as a true believer I may approach them freely, as an alien I
must not touch them lest I die. Heartsearching is the duty of all who are
baptized or come to the Lord’s table. “Search me, O God, and know my
way, try me and know my heart.”
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August 17, 2024 August 17th Evening
“This sickness is not unto death.” — John 11:4
From our Lord’s words we learn that there is a limit to sickness. Here is an
“unto” within which its ultimate end is restrained, and beyond which it
cannot go. Lazarus might pass through death, but death was not to be the
ultimatum of his sickness. In all sickness, the Lord saith to the waves of
pain, “Hitherto shall ye go, but no further.” His fixed purpose is not the
destruction, but the instruction of His people. Wisdom hangs up the
thermometer at the furnace mouth, and regulates the heat.
1. The limit is encouragingly comprehensive. The God of providence has limited the…
time, manner, intensity, repetition, and effects of all our
sicknesses; each throb is decreed, each sleepless hour predestinated, each
relapse ordained, each depression of spirit foreknown, and each sanctifying
result eternally purposed. Nothing great or small escapes the ordaining
hand of Him who numbers the hairs of our head.
2. This limit is wisely adjusted to our strength, to the end designed, and to
the grace apportioned. Affliction comes not at haphazard — the weight of
every stroke of the rod is accurately measured. He who made no mistakes
in balancing the clouds and meting out the heavens, commits no errors in
measuring out the ingredients which compose the medicine of souls. We
cannot suffer too much nor be relieved too late.
3. The limit is tenderly appointed. The knife of the heavenly Surgeon never
cuts deeper than is absolutely necessary. “He doth not afflict willingly,
nor grieve the children of men.” A mother’s heart cries, “Spare my child”;
but no mother is more compassionate than our gracious God. When we
consider how hard-mouthed we are, it is a wonder that we are not driven
with a sharper bit. The thought is full of consolation, that He who has
fixed the bounds of our habitation, has also fixed the bounds of our
tribulation.
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