Category Archives: Evening’s With Spurgeon

Thursday, July 16, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time is come. For Thy servants rake pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.”—Psalm 102:13, 14. A selfish man in trouble is exceedingly hard to comfort, because the springs of his… (more…)

Wednesday, July 15, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He appeared first to Mary Magdalene.”—Mark 16:9. JESUS “appeared first to Mary Magdalene,” probably not only on account of her great love and persevering seeking, but because, as the context intimates, she had been a special trophy of Christ’s delivering power. Learn from this, that the greatness of our sin… (more…)

Tuesday, July 14, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “As it began to dawn, came Magdalene, to see the sepulchre.”—Matthew 28:1. LET us learn from Mary Magdalene how to obtain fellowship with the Lord Jesus. Notice how she sought. She sought the Saviour very early in the morning. If thou canst wait for Christ, and be patient in the… (more…)

Monday, July 13, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “When I cry unto Thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.”—Psalm 56:9. IT is impossible for any human speech to express the full meaning of this delightful phrase, “God is for me.” He was “for us” before the worlds were made; He… (more…)

Sunday, July 12, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “His heavenly kingdom.”—2 Timothy 4:18. DONDER city of the great King is a place of active service. Ransomed spirits serve Him day and night in His temple. They never cease to fulfil the good pleasure of their King. They always “rest,” so far as ease and freedom from care is… (more…)

Saturday, July 11, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.”—Joel 1:3. IN this simple way, by God’s grace, a living testimony for truth is always to be kept alive in the land—the beloved of the Lord are to hand down their witness… (more…)

Friday, July 10, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And the evening and the morning were the first day.”—Genesis 1:5. THE evening was “darkness” and the morning was “light,” and yet the two together are called by the name that is given to the light alone! This is somewhat remarkable, but it has an exact analogy in spiritual experience.… (more…)

Thursday, July 09, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And God divided the light from the darkness.”—Genesis 1:4. A believer has two principles at work within him. In his natural estate he was subject to one principle only, which was darkness; now light has entered, and the two principles disagree. Mark the apostle Paul’s words in the seventh chapter… (more…)

Wednesday, July 08, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Lead me in Thy truth, and teach me: for Thou art the God of my salvation; on Thee do I wait all the day.”—Psalm 25:5. WHEN the believer has begun with trembling feet to walk in the way of the Lord, he asks to be still led onward like a… (more…)

Tuesday, July 07, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “When I passed by thee, I said unto thee, Live.”—Ezekiel 16:6. SAVED one, consider gratefully this mandate (of mercy. Note that this fiat of God is majestic. In our text, we perceive a sinner with nothing in him but sin, expecting nothing but wrath; but the eternal Lord passes by… (more…)

Monday, July 06, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “How many are mine iniquities and sins?”—Job 13:23. HAVE you ever really weighed and considered how great the sin of God’s people is? Think how heinous is your own transgression, and you will find that not only does a sin here and there tower up like an alp, but that… (more…)

Sunday, July 05, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.”—Isaiah 26:4. SEEING that we have such a God to trust to, let us rest upon Him with all our weight; let us resolutely drive out all unbelief, and endeavour to get rid of doubts and… (more…)

Saturday, July 04, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.”—Psalm 24:4. OUTWARD practical holiness is a very precious mark of grace. It is to be feared that many professors have perverted the doctrine of justification by faith in such… (more…)

Friday, July 03, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “If we suffer, we shall also reign with Him.”—2 Timothy 2:12. WE must not imagine that we are suffering for Christ, and with Christ, if we are not in Christ. Beloved friend, are you trusting to Jesus only? If not, whatever you may have to mourn over on earth, you… (more…)

Thursday, July 02, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Wednesday, July 01, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Tuesday, June 30, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Monday, June 29, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Sunday, June 28, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Saturday, June 27, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Friday, June 26, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Thursday, June 25, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Wednesday, June 24, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Tuesday, June 23, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Monday, June 22, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “That those things which cannot be shaken may remain.”—Hebrews 12:27. WE have many things in our possession at the present moment which can be shaken, and it ill becomes a Christian man to set much store by them, for there is nothing stable beneath these rolling skies; change is written… (more…)

Sunday, June 21, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The foundation of God standeth sure.”—2 Timothy 2:19. THE foundation upon which our faith rests is this, that “God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.” The great fact on which genuine faith relies is, that “the Word was made flesh and dwelt… (more…)

Saturday, June 20, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Straightway they forsook their nets, and followed Him.”—Mark 1:18. WHEN they heard the call of Jesus, Simon and Andrew obeyed at once without demur. If we would always, punctually and with resolute zeal, put in practice what we hear upon the spot, or at the first fit occasion, our attendance… (more…)

Friday, June 19, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “My Beloved is mine, and I am His: He feedeth among the lilies. Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my Beloved, and be Thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.”—Song of Solomon 2:16, 17. SURELY if there be a happy… (more…)

Thursday, June 18, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse.”—Song of Solomon 5:1. THE heart of the believer is Christ’s garden. He bought it with His precious blood, and He enters it and claims it as His own. A garden implies separation. It is not the open common; it is… (more…)

Wednesday, June 17, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it.”—Numbers 21:17. FAMOUS was the well of Beer in the wilderness, because it was the subject of a promise: “That is the well whereof the Lord spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them… (more…)

Tuesday, June 16, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?”—Psalm 27:1. THE Lord is my light and my salvation.” Here is personal interest, “my light,” “my salvation”; the soul is assured of it, and… (more…)

Monday, June 15, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He openeth, and no man shutteth.”—Revelation 3:7. JESUS is the keeper of the gates of paradise and before every believing soul He setteth an open door, which no man or devil shall be able to close against it. What joy it will be to find that faith in Him is… (more…)

Sunday, June 14, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face . . . because we have sinned against Thee.”—Daniel 9:8. Adeep sense and clear sight of sin, its heinousness, and the punishment which it deserves, should make us lie low before the throne. We have sinned as Christians. Alas! that it should… (more…)

Saturday, June 13, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Remove far from me vanity and lies.”—Proverbs 30:8. O my God, be not far from me.” Psalm 38:21. Here we have two great lessons—what to deprecate and what to supplicate. The happiest state of a Christian is the holiest state. As there is the most heat nearest to the sun,… (more…)

Friday, June 12, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling.” 2 Timothy 1:9. THE apostle uses the perfect tense and says, “Who hath saved us.” Believers in Christ Jesus are saved. They are not looked upon as persons who are in a hopeful state, and may ultimately be saved,… (more…)