Morning and Evening with Charles Spurgeon

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July 06, 2024 July 3rd Morning
“The illfavoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven wellfavoured and fat kine.” — Genesis 41:4
Pharaoh’s dream has too often been my waking experience. My days of sloth have ruinously destroyed all that I had achieved in times of zealous industry; my seasons of coldness have frozen all the genial glow of my periods of fervency and enthusiasm; and my fits of worldliness have thrown me back from my advances in the divine life. I had need to beware of lean prayers, lean praises, lean duties, and lean experiences, for these will eat up the fat of my comfort and peace. If I neglect prayer for never so short a time, I lose all the spirituality to which I had attained; if I draw no fresh supplies from heaven, the old corn in my granary is soon consumed by the…
famine which rages in my soul. When the caterpillars of
indifference, the cankerworms of worldliness, and the palmerworms of
self-indulgence, lay my heart completely desolate, and make my soul to
languish, all my former fruitfulness and growth in grace avails me nothing
whatever. How anxious should I be to have no lean-fleshed days, no
ill-favoured hours! If every day I journeyed towards the goal of my desires
I should soon reach it, but backsliding leaves me still far off from the prize
of my high calling, and robs me of the advances which I had so laboriously
made. The only way in which all my days can be as the “fat kine,” is to
feed them in the right meadow, to spend them with the Lord, in His
service, in His company, in His fear, and in His way. Why should not
every year be richer than the past, in love, and usefulness, and joy? — I
am nearer the celestial hills, I have had more experience of my Lord, and
should be more like Him. O Lord, keep far from me the curse of leanness
of soul; let me not have to cry, “My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me!”
but may I be well-fed and nourished in Thy house, that I may praise Thy
name.
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July 06, 2024 July 2nd Evening
“Unto Thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if Thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.” — Psalm 28:1
A cry is the natural expression of sorrow, and a suitable utterance when all
other modes of appeal fail us; but the cry must be alone directed to the
Lord, for to cry to man is to waste our entreaties upon the air. When we
consider the readiness of the Lord to hear, and His ability to aid, we shall
see good reason for directing all our appeals at once to the God of our
salvation. It will be in vain to call to the rocks in the day of judgment, but
our Rock attends to our cries.
“Be not silent to me.” Mere formalists may be content without answers to their prayers, but genuine suppliants cannot; they are not…
satisfied with
the results of prayer itself in calming the mind and subduing the will —
they must go further, and obtain actual replies from heaven, or they cannot
rest; and those replies they long to receive at once, they dread even a little
of God’s silence. God’s voice is often so terrible that it shakes the
wilderness; but His silence is equally full of awe to an eager suppliant.
When God seems to close His ear, we must not therefore close our
mouths, but rather cry with more earnestness; for when our note grows
shrill with eagerness and grief, He will not long deny us a hearing. What a
dreadful case should we be in if the Lord should become for ever silent to
our prayers? “Lest, if Thou be silent to me, I become like them that go
down into the pit.” Deprived of the God who answers prayer, we should be
in a more pitiable plight than the dead in the grave, and should soon sink to
the same level as the lost in hell. We must have answers to prayer: ours is
an urgent case of dire necessity; surely the Lord will speak peace to our
agitated minds, for He never can find it in His heart to permit His own
elect to perish.
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July 02, 2024 July 2nd Morning
“Our heart shall rejoice in Him.” — Psalm 33:21
Blessed is the fact that Christians can rejoice even in the deepest distress; although trouble may surround them, they still sing; and, like many birds, they sing best in their cages. The waves may roll over them, but their souls soon rise to the surface and see the light of God’s countenance; they have a buoyancy about them which keeps their head always above the water, and helps them to sing amid the tempest, “God is with me still.” To whom shall the glory be given? Oh! to Jesus — it is all by Jesus. Trouble does not necessarily bring consolation with it to the believer, but the presence of the Son of God in the fiery furnace with him fills his heart with joy. He is sick and suffering, but Jesus visits him and makes his bed for him. He is dying, and the cold chilly waters of Jordan are gathering about him up to the neck, but Jesus puts…
His arms around him, and cries, “Fear not,
beloved; to die is to be blessed; the waters of death have their
fountain-head in heaven; they are not bitter, they are sweet as nectar, for
they flow from the throne of God.” As the departing saint wades through
the stream, and the billows gather around him, and heart and flesh fail him,
the same voice sounds in his ears, “Fear not; I am with thee; be not
dismayed; I am thy God.” As he nears the borders of the infinite unknown,
and is almost affrighted to enter the realm of shades, Jesus says, “Fear not,
it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” Thus
strengthened and consoled, the believer is not afraid to die; nay, he is even
willing to depart, for since he has seen Jesus as the morning star, he longs
to gaze upon Him as the sun in his strength. Truly, the presence of Jesus
is all the heaven we desire. He is at once
“The glory of our brightest days;
The comfort of our nights.”
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July 01, 2024 July 1st Evening
“The voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.” — Genesis 3:8
My soul, now that the cool of the day has come, retire awhile and hearken to the voice of thy God. He is always ready to speak with thee when thou art prepared to hear. If there be any slowness to commune it is not on His part, but altogether on thine own, for He stands at the door and knocks, and if His people will but open He rejoices to enter. But in what state is my heart, which is my Lord’s garden? May I venture to hope that it is well trimmed and watered, and is bringing forth fruit fit for Him? If not, He will have much to reprove, but still I pray Him to come unto me, for nothing can so certainly bring my heart into a right condition as the presence of the Sun of Righteousness, who brings…
healing in His wings.
Come, therefore, O Lord, my God, my soul invites Thee earnestly, and
waits for Thee eagerly. Come to me, O Jesus, my well-beloved, and plant
fresh flowers in my garden, such as I see blooming in such perfection in
Thy matchless character! Come, O my Father, who art the Husbandman,
and deal with me in Thy tenderness and prudence! Come, O Holy Spirit,
and bedew my whole nature, as the herbs are now moistened with the
evening dews. O that God would speak to me. Speak, Lord, for Thy
servant heareth! O that He would walk with me; I am ready to give up my
whole heart and mind to Him, and every other thought is hushed. I am
only asking what He delights to give. I am sure that He will condescend to
have fellowship with me, for He has given me His Holy Spirit to abide
with me for ever. Sweet is the cool twilight, when every star seems like the
eye of heaven, and the cool wind is as the breath of celestial love. My
Father, my elder Brother, my sweet Comforter, speak now in
lovingkindness, for Thou hast opened mine ear and I am not rebellious.
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July 01, 2024 July 1st Morning
“In summer and in winter shall it be.” — Zechariah 14:8
The streams of living water which flow from Jerusalem are not dried up by the parching heats of sultry midsummer any more than they were frozen by the cold winds of blustering winter. Rejoice, O my soul, that thou art spared to testify of the faithfulness of the Lord. The seasons change and thou changest, but thy Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad and as full as ever. The heats of business cares and scorching trials make me need the cooling influences of the river of His grace; I may go at once and drink to the full from the inexhaustible fountain, for in summer and in winter it pours forth its flood. The upper springs are never scanty, and blessed be the name of the Lord, the nether springs cannot fail either. Elijah found Cherith dry up, but…
Jehovah was
still the same God of providence. Job said his brethren were like deceitful
brooks, but he found his God an overflowing river of consolation. The Nile
is the great confidence of Egypt, but its floods are variable; our Lord is
evermore the same. By turning the course of the Euphrates, Cyrus took
the city of Babylon, but no power, human or infernal, can divert the
current of divine grace. The tracks of ancient rivers have been found all dry
and desolate, but the streams which take their rise on the mountains of
divine sovereignty and infinite love shall ever be full to the brim.
Generations melt away, but the course of grace is unaltered. The river of
God may sing with greater truth than the brook in the poem —
“Men may come, and men may go,
But I go on for ever.”
How happy art thou, my soul, to be led beside such still waters! never
wander to other streams, lest thou hear the Lord’s rebuke, “What hast
thou to do in the way of Egypt to drink of the muddy river?”
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June 30, 2024 June 30th Evening
“Ah Lord God, behold, Thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for Thee.” — Jeremiah 32:17
At the very time when the Chaldeans surrounded Jerusalem, and when the sword, famine and pestilence had desolated the land, Jeremiah was commanded by God to purchase a field, and have the deed of transfer legally sealed and witnessed. This was a strange purchase for a rational man to make. Prudence could not justify it, for it was buying with scarcely a probability that the person purchasing could ever enjoy the possession. But it was enough for Jeremiah that his God had bidden him, for well he knew that God will be justified of all His children. He reasoned thus: “Ah, Lord God! Thou canst make this plot of ground of use to me; Thou canst rid this land of these oppressors; Thou canst make me…
yet sit under my
vine and my fig-tree in the heritage which I have bought; for Thou didst
make the heavens and the earth, and there is nothing too hard for Thee.”
This gave a majesty to the early saints, that they dared to do at God’s
command things which carnal reason would condemn. Whether it be a
Noah who is to build a ship on dry land, an Abraham who is to offer up
his only son, or a Moses who is to despise the treasures of Egypt, or a
Joshua who is to besiege Jericho seven days, using no weapons but the
blasts of rams’ horns, they all act upon God’s command, contrary to the
dictates of carnal reason; and the Lord gives them a rich reward as the
result of their obedient faith. Would to God we had in the religion of these
modern times a more potent infusion of this heroic faith in God. If we
would venture more upon the naked promise of God, we should enter a
world of wonders to which as yet we are strangers. Let Jeremiah’s place of
confidence be ours — nothing is too hard for the God that created the
heavens and the earth.
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June 30, 2024 June 30th Morning
“And the glory which Thou gavest me I have given them.” — John 17:22
Behold the superlative liberality of the Lord Jesus, for He hath given us His all. Although a tithe of His possessions would have made a universe of angels rich beyond all thought, yet was He not content until He had given us all that He had. It would have been surprising grace if He had allowed us to eat the crumbs of His bounty beneath the table of His mercy; but He will do nothing by halves, He makes us sit with Him and share the feast. Had He given us some small pension from His royal coffers, we should have had cause to love Him eternally; but no, He will have His bride as rich as Himself, and He will not have a glory or a grace in which she shall not share. He has not been content with less than…
making us joint-heirs with
Himself, so that we might have equal possessions. He has emptied all His
estate into the coffers of the Church, and hath all things common with His
redeemed. There is not one room in His house the key of which He will
withhold from His people. He gives them full liberty to take all that He
hath to be their own; He loves them to make free with His treasure, and
appropriate as much as they can possibly carry. The boundless fulness of
His all-sufficiency is as free to the believer as the air he breathes. Christ
hath put the flagon of His love and grace to the believer’s lip, and bidden
him drink on for ever; for could he drain it, he is welcome to do so, and as
he cannot exhaust it, he is bidden to drink abundantly, for it is all his own.
What truer proof of fellowship can heaven or earth afford?
“When I stand before the throne
Dressed in beauty not my own;
When I see Thee as Thou art,
Love Thee with unsinning heart;
Then, Lord, shall I fully know —
Not till then — how much I owe.”
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June 29, 2024 June 29th Evening
“Howbeit, in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that He might know all that was in his heart.” — 2 Chronicles 32:31
Hezekiah was growing so inwardly great, and priding himself so much upon the favour of God, that self-righteousness crept in, and through his carnal security, the grace of God was for a time, in its more active operations, withdrawn. Here is quite enough to account with the Babylonians; for if the grace of God should leave the best Christian, there is enough of sin in his heart to make him the worst of transgressors. If left to yourselves, you who are warmest for Christ would cool down like Laodicea into sickening lukewarmness: you who are sound in the faith would be white with the leprosy of false doctrine; you who now walk before the Lord in…
excellency and integrity would reel to and fro, and
stagger with a drunkenness of evil passion. Like the moon, we borrow our
light; bright as we are when grace shines on us, we are darkness itself when
the Sun of Righteousness withdraws Himself. Therefore let us cry to God
never to leave us. “Lord, take not thy Holy Spirit from us! Withdraw not
from us Thine indwelling grace! Hast Thou not said, ‘I the Lord do keep it;
I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day’?
Lord, keep us everywhere. Keep us when in the valley, that we murmur
not against Thy humbling hand; keep us when on the mountain, that we
wax not giddy through being lifted up; keep us in youth, when our
passions are strong; keep us in old age, when becoming conceited of our
wisdom, we may therefore prove greater fools than the young and giddy;
keep us when we come to die, lest, at the very last, we should deny Thee!
Keep us living, keep us dying, keep us labouring, keep us suffering, keep
us fighting, keep us resting, keep us everywhere, for everywhere we need
Thee, O our God!”
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June 29, 2024 June 29th Morning
“Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.” — 1 Thessalonians 4:14
Let us not imagine that the soul sleeps in insensibility. “Today shalt thou be with me in paradise,” is the whisper of Christ to every dying saint. They “sleep in Jesus,” but their souls are before the throne of God, praising Him day and night in His temple, singing hallelujahs to Him who washed them from their sins in His blood. The body sleeps in its lonely bed of earth, beneath the coverlet of grass. But what is this sleep? The idea connected with sleep is “rest,” and that is the thought which the Spirit of God would convey to us. Sleep makes each night a Sabbath for the day. Sleep shuts fast the door of the soul, and bids all intruders tarry for a while, that the life within may enter its summer garden of ease. The toil-worn believer quietly sleeps, as does the…
weary child when it slumbers
on its mother’s breast. Oh! happy they who die in the Lord; they rest
from their labours, and their works do follow them. Their quiet repose
shall never be broken until God shall rouse them to give them their full
reward. Guarded by angel watchers, curtained by eternal mysteries, they
sleep on, the heritors of glory, till the fulness of time shall bring the fulness
of redemption. What an awaking shall be theirs! They were laid in their
last resting place, weary and worn, but such they shall not rise. They went
to their rest with the furrowed brow, and the wasted features, but they
wake up in beauty and glory. The shrivelled seed, so destitute of form and
comeliness, rises from the dust a beauteous flower. The winter of the grave
gives way to the spring of redemption and the summer of glory. Blessed is
death, since it, through the divine power, disrobes us of this work-day
garment, to clothe us with the wedding garment of incorruption. Blessed
are those who “sleep in Jesus.”
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June 28, 2024 June 28th Evening
“But Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.” — Exodus 7:12
This incident is an instructive emblem of the sure victory of the divine handiwork over all opposition. Whenever a divine principle is cast into the heart, though the devil may fashion a counterfeit, and produce swarms of opponents, as sure as ever God is in the work, it will swallow up all its foes. If God’s grace takes possession of a man, the world’s magicians may throw down all their rods; and every rod may be as cunning and poisonous as a serpent, but Aaron’s rod will swallow up their rods. The sweet attractions of the cross will woo and win the man’s heart, and he who lived only for this deceitful earth will now have an eye for the upper spheres, and a wing to mount into celestial heights. When grace has…
won the day the
worldling seeks the world to come. The same fact is to be observed in the
life of the believer. What multitudes of foes has our faith had to meet! Our
old sins — the devil threw them down before us, and they turned to
serpents. What hosts of them! Ah, but the cross of Jesus destroys them
all. Faith in Christ makes short work of all our sins. Then the devil has
launched forth another host of serpents in the form of worldly trials,
temptations, unbelief; but faith in Jesus is more than a match for them, and
overcomes them all. The same absorbing principle shines in the faithful
service of God! With an enthusiastic love for Jesus difficulties are
surmounted, sacrifices become pleasures, sufferings are honours. But if
religion is thus a consuming passion in the heart, then it follows that there
are many persons who profess religion but have it not; for what they have
will not bear this test. Examine yourself, my reader, on this point. Aaron’s
rod proved its heaven-given power. Is your religion doing so? If Christ be
anything He must be everything. O rest not till love and faith in Jesus be
the master passions of your soul!
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