Morning and Evening with Charles Spurgeon

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June 28, 2024 June 28th Morning
“Looking unto Jesus.” — Hebrews 12:2
It is ever the Holy Spirit’s work to turn our eyes away from self to Jesus; but Satan’s work is just the opposite of this, for he is constantly trying to make us regard ourselves instead of Christ. He insinuates, “Your sins are too great for pardon; you have no faith; you do not repent enough; you will never be able to continue to the end; you have not the joy of His children; you have such a wavering hold of Jesus.” All these are thoughts about self, and we shall never find comfort or assurance by looking within. But the Holy Spirit turns our eyes entirely away from self: He tells us that we are nothing, but that “Christ is all in all.” Remember, therefore, it is not…
thy hold of Christ that saves thee — it is Christ; it is not thy joy in Christ
that saves thee — it is Christ; it is not even faith in Christ, though that be
the instrument — it is Christ’s blood and merits; therefore, look not so
much to thy hand with which thou art grasping Christ, as to Christ; look
not to thy hope, but to Jesus, the source of thy hope; look not to thy
faith, but to Jesus, the author and finisher of thy faith. We shall never find
happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what
Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul. If we would at once
overcome Satan and have peace with God, it must be by “looking unto
Jesus.” Keep thine eye simply on Him; let His death, His sufferings, His
merits, His glories, His intercession, be fresh upon thy mind; when thou
wakest in the morning look to Him; when thou liest down at night look to
Him. Oh! let not thy hopes or fears come between thee and Jesus; follow
hard after Him, and He will never fail thee.
“My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesu’s blood and righteousness:
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesu’s name.”
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June 27, 2024 June 27th Evening
“Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.” — 1 Corinthians 7:20
Some persons have the foolish notion that the only way in which they can live for God is by becoming ministers, missionaries, or Bible women. Alas! how many would be shut out from any opportunity of magnifying the Most High if this were the case. Beloved, it is not office, it is earnestness; it is not position, it is grace which will enable us to glorify God. God is most surely glorified in that cobbler’s stall, where the godly worker, as he plies the awl, sings of the Saviour’s love, ay, glorified far more than in many a prebendal stall where official religiousness performs its scanty duties. The name of Jesus is glorified by the…
poor unlearned carter as he
drives his horse, and blesses his God, or speaks to his fellow labourer by
the roadside, as much as by the popular divine who, throughout the
country, like Boanerges, is thundering out the gospel. God is glorified by
our serving Him in our proper vocations. Take care, dear reader, that you
do not forsake the path of duty by leaving your occupation, and take care
you do not dishonour your profession while in it. Think little of
yourselves, but do not think too little of your callings. Every lawful trade
may be sanctified by the gospel to noblest ends. Turn to the Bible, and
you will find the most menial forms of labour connected either with most
daring deeds of faith, or with persons whose lives have been illustrious for
holiness. Therefore be not discontented with your calling. Whatever God
has made your position, or your work, abide in that, unless you are quite
sure that he calls you to something else. Let your first care be to glorify
God to the utmost of your power where you are. Fill your present sphere
to His praise, and if He needs you in another He will show it you. This
evening lay aside vexatious ambition, and embrace peaceful content.
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June 27, 2024 June 27th Morning
“Only ye shall not go very far away.” — Exodus 8:28
This is a crafty word from the lip of the arch-tyrant Pharaoh. If the poor bondaged Israelites must needs go out of Egypt, then he bargains with them that it shall not be very far away; not too far for them to escape the terror of his arms, and the observation of his spies. After the same fashion, the world loves not the non-conformity of nonconformity, or the dissidence of dissent, it would have us be more charitable and not carry matters with too severe a hand. Death to the world, and burial with Christ, are experiences which carnal minds treat with ridicule, and hence the ordinance which sets them forth is almost universally neglected, and even contemned. Worldly wisdom recommends the path of compromise, and talks of “moderation.” According to this carnal policy, purity is…
admitted
to be very desirable, but we are warned against being too precise; truth is
of course to be followed, but error is not to be severely denounced. “Yes,”
says the world, “be spiritually minded by all means, but do not deny
yourself a little gay society, an occasional ball, and a Christmas visit to a
theatre. What’s the good of crying down a thing when it is so fashionable,
and everybody does it?” Multitudes of professors yield to this cunning
advice, to their own eternal ruin. If we would follow the Lord wholly, we
must go right away into the wilderness of separation, and leave the Egypt
of the carnal world behind us. We must leave its maxims, its pleasures, and
its religion too, and go far away to the place where the Lord calls His
sanctified ones. When the town is on fire, our house cannot be too far from
the flames. When the plague is abroad, a man cannot be too far from its
haunts. The further from a viper the better, and the further from worldly
conformity the better. To all true believers let the trumpet-call be sounded,
“Come ye out from among them, be ye separate.”
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June 26, 2024 June 26th Evening
“Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” — 2 Peter 1:4
Vanish for ever all thought of indulging the flesh if you would live in the power of your risen Lord. It were ill that a man who is alive in Christ should dwell in the corruption of sin. “Why seek ye the living among the dead?” said the angel to Magdalene. Should the living dwell in the sepulchre? Should divine life be immured in the charnel house of fleshly lust? How can we partake of the cup of the Lord and yet drink the cup of Belial? Surely, believer, from open lusts and sins you are delivered: have you also escaped from the more secret and delusive lime-twigs of the Satanic fowler? Have you come forth from the lust of pride? Have you escaped from slothfulness? Have you…
clean escaped from carnal security?
Are you seeking day by day to live above worldliness, the pride of life,
and the ensnaring vice of avarice? Remember, it is for this that you have
been enriched with the treasures of God. If you be indeed the chosen of
God, and beloved by Him, do not suffer all the lavish treasure of grace to
be wasted upon you. Follow after holiness; it is the Christian’s crown and
glory. An unholy church! it is useless to the world, and of no esteem
among men. It is an abomination, hell’s laughter, heaven’s abhorrence. The
worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon
her by an unholy church. O Christian, the vows of God are upon you. You
are God’s priest: act as such. You are God’s king: reign over your lusts.
You are God’s chosen: do not associate with Belial. Heaven is your
portion: live like a heavenly spirit, so shall you prove that you have true
faith in Jesus, for there cannot be faith in the heart unless there be holiness
in the life.
“Lord, I desire to live as one
Who bears a blood-bought name,
As one who fears but grieving Thee,
And knows no other shame.”
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June 26, 2024 June 26th Morning
“Art thou become like unto us?” — Isaiah 14:10
What must be the apostate professor’s doom when his naked soul appears before God? How will he bear that voice, “Depart, ye cursed; thou hast rejected me, and I reject thee; thou hast played the harlot, and departed from Me: I also have banished thee for ever from my presence, and will not have mercy upon thee.” What will be this wretch’s shame at the last great day when, before assembled multitudes, the apostate shall be unmasked? See the profane, and sinners who never professed religion, lifting themselves up from their beds of fire to point at him. “There he is,” says one, “will he preach the gospel in hell?” “There he is,” says another, “he rebuked me for cursing, and was a hypocrite himself!” “Aha!” says another, “here comes a psalm-singing Methodist — one who was always at his meeting; he is the man who…
boasted of his being sure of everlasting
life; and here he is!” No greater eagerness will ever be seen among Satanic
tormentors, than in that day when devils drag the hypocrite’s soul down
to perdition. Bunyan pictures this with massive but awful grandeur of
poetry when he speaks of the back-way to hell. Seven devils bound the
wretch with nine cords, and dragged him from the road to heaven, in which
he had professed to walk, and thrust him through the back-door into hell.
Mind that back-way to hell, professors! “Examine yourselves, whether ye
be in the faith.” Look well to your state; see whether you be in Christ or
not. It is the easiest thing in the world to give a lenient verdict when
oneself is to be tried; but O, be just and true here. Be just to all, but be
rigorous to yourself. Remember if it be not a rock on which you build,
when the house shall fall, great will be the fall of it. O may the Lord give
you sincerity, constancy, and firmness; and in no day, however evil, may
you be led to turn aside.
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June 25, 2024 June 25th Evening
“The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.” — Genesis 8:9
Reader, can you find rest apart from the ark, Christ Jesus? Then be assured that your religion is vain. Are you satisfied with anything short of a conscious knowledge of your union and interest in Christ? Then woe unto you. If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false. If your soul can stretch herself at rest, and find the bed long enough, and the coverlet broad enough to cover her in the chambers of sin, then you are a hypocrite, and far enough from any right thoughts of Christ or perception of His preciousness. But if, on the other hand, you feel that if you could…
indulge
in sin without punishment, yet it would be a punishment of itself; and that
if you could have the whole world, and abide in it for ever, it would be
quite enough misery not to be parted from it; for your God — your God
— is what your soul craves after; then be of good courage, thou art a child
of God. With all thy sins and imperfections, take this to thy comfort: if
thy soul has no rest in sin, thou are not as the sinner is! If thou art still
crying after and craving after something better, Christ has not forgotten
thee, for thou hast not quite forgotten Him. The believer cannot do
without his Lord; words are inadequate to express his thoughts of Him.
We cannot live on the sands of the wilderness, we want the manna which
drops from on high; our skin bottles of creature confidence cannot yield us
a drop of moisture, but we drink of the rock which follows us, and that
rock is Christ. When you feed on Him your soul can sing, “He hath
satisfied my mouth with good things, so that my youth is renewed like the
eagle’s,” but if you have Him not, your bursting wine vat and well-filled
barn can give you no sort of satisfaction: rather lament over them in the
words of wisdom, “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!”
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June 25, 2024 June 25th Morning
“Get thee up into the high mountain.” — Isaiah 40:9
Our knowledge of Christ is somewhat like climbing one of our Welsh mountains. When you are at the base you see but little: the mountain itself appears to be but one-half as high as it really is. Confined in a little valley, you discover scarcely anything but the rippling brooks as they descend into the stream at the foot of the mountain. Climb the first rising knoll, and the valley lengthens and widens beneath your feet. Go higher, and you see the country for four or five miles round, and you are delighted with the widening prospect. Mount still, and the scene enlarges; till at last, when you are on the summit, and look east, west, north, and south, you see…
almost all England lying before you. Yonder is a forest in some distant
county, perhaps two hundred miles away, and here the sea, and there a
shining river and the smoking chimneys of a manufacturing town, or the
masts of the ships in a busy port. All these things please and delight you,
and you say, “I could not have imagined that so much could be seen at this
elevation.” Now, the Christian life is of the same order. When we first
believe in Christ we see but little of Him. The higher we climb the more we
discover of His beauties. But who has ever gained the summit? Who has
known all the heights and depths of the love of Christ which passes
knowledge? Paul, when grown old, sitting grey-haired, shivering in a
dungeon in Rome, could say with greater emphasis than we can, “I know
whom I have believed,” for each experience had been like the climbing of a
hill, each trial had been like ascending another summit, and his death
seemed like gaining the top of the mountain, from which he could see the
whole of the faithfulness and the love of Him to whom he had committed
his soul. Get thee up, dear friend, into the high mountain.
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June 24, 2024 June 24th Evening
“Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said… Be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods.” — Daniel 3:16, 18
The narrative of the manly courage and marvellous deliverance of the three holy children, or rather champions, is well calculated to excite in the minds of believers firmness and steadfastness in upholding the truth in the teeth of tyranny and in the very jaws of death. Let young Christians especially learn from their example, both in matters of faith in religion, and matters of uprightness in business, never to sacrifice their consciences. Lose all rather than lose your integrity, and when all else is gone, still hold fast a clear conscience as the rarest jewel which can adorn the bosom of a mortal. Be not guided by the will-o’-the-wisp of policy, but by the pole-star of divine authority. Follow the right at all hazards. When you see…
no present
advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honour to trust
Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle. See
whether He will be your debtor! See if He doth not even in this life prove
His word that “Godliness, with contentment, is great gain,” and that they
who “seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, shall have all
these things added unto them.” Should it happen that, in the providence of
God, you are a loser by conscience, you shall find that if the Lord pays
you not back in the silver of earthly prosperity, He will discharge His
promise in the gold of spiritual joy. Remember that a man’s life consisteth
not in the abundance of that which he possesseth. To wear a guileless
spirit, to have a heart void of offence, to have the favour and smile of God,
is greater riches than the mines of Ophir could yield, or the traffic of Tyre
could win. “Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and
inward contention therewith.” An ounce of heart’s-ease is worth a ton of
gold.
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June 24, 2024 June 24th Morning
“A certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto Him, Blessed is the womb that bare Thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. But He said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.” — Luke 11:27, 28
It is fondly imagined by some that it must have involved very special privileges to have been the mother of our Lord, because they supposed that she had the benefit of looking into His very heart in a way in which we cannot hope to do. There may be an appearance of plausibility in the supposition, but not much. We do not know that Mary knew more than others; what she did know she did well to lay up in her heart; but she does not appear from anything we read in the Evangelists to have been a better-instructed believer than any other of Christ’s disciples. All that she knew we also may discover. Do you wonder that…
we should say so? Here
is a text to prove it: “The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him,
and He will show them His covenant.” Remember the Master’s words —
”Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his
Lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of
my Father I have made known unto you.” So blessedly does this Divine
Revealer of secrets tell us His heart, that He keepeth back nothing which is
profitable to us; His own assurance is, “If it were not so, I would have told
you.” Doth He not this day manifest Himself unto us as He doth not unto
the world? It is even so; and therefore we will not ignorantly cry out,
“Blessed is the womb that bare thee,” but we will intelligently bless God
that, having heard the Word and kept it, we have first of all as true a
communion with the Saviour as the Virgin had, and in the second place as
true an acquaintance with the secrets of His heart as she can be supposed
to have obtained. Happy soul to be thus privileged!
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June 23, 2024 June 23rd Evening
“Waiting for the adoption.” — Romans 8:23
Even in this world saints are God’s children, but men cannot discover them to be so, except by certain moral characteristics. The adoption is not manifested, the children are not yet openly declared. Among the Romans a man might adopt a child, and keep it private for a long time: but there was a second adoption in public; when the child was brought before the constituted authorities its former garments were taken off, and the father who took it to be his child gave it raiment suitable to its new condition of life. “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be.” We are not yet…
arrayed in the apparel which befits the
royal family of heaven; we are wearing in this flesh and blood just what we
wore as the sons of Adam; but we know that “when He shall appear” who
is the “first-born among many brethren,” we shall be like Him, we shall see
Him as He is. Cannot you imagine that a child taken from the lowest ranks
of society, and adopted by a Roman senator, would say to himself, “I long
for the day when I shall be publicly adopted. Then I shall leave off these
plebeian garments, and be robed as becomes my senatorial rank”? Happy
in what he has received, for that very reason he groans to get the fulness of
what is promised him. So it is with us today. We are waiting till we shall
put on our proper garments, and shall be manifested as the children of
God. We are young nobles, and have not yet worn our coronets. We are
young brides, and the marriage day is not yet come, and by the love our
Spouse bears us, we are led to long and sigh for the bridal morning. Our
very happiness makes us groan after more; our joy, like a swollen spring,
longs to well up like an Iceland geyser, leaping to the skies, and it heaves
and groans within our spirit for want of space and room by which to
manifest itself to men.
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