Category Archives: Morning’s With Spurgeon

Friday, April 19, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.” ~ Matthew 27:51 ~ No mean miracle was wrought in the rending of so strong and thick a veil; but it was not intended merely as a display of power—many lessons were herein taught… (more…)

Thursday, April 18, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “She bound the scarlet line in the window.” ~ Joshua 2:21 ~ Rahab depended for her preservation upon the promise of the spies, whom she looked upon as the representatives of the God of Israel. Her faith was simple and firm, but it was very obedient. To tie the scarlet… (more…)

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “We are come to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.” ~ Hebrews 12:24 ~ Reader, have you come to the blood of sprinkling? The question is not whether you have come to a knowledge of doctrine, or an observance of ceremonies, or to a… (more…)

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The precious blood of Christ.” ~ 1 Peter 1:19 ~ Standing at the foot of the cross, we see hands, and feet, and side, all distilling crimson streams of precious blood. It is “precious” because of its redeeming and atoning efficacy. By it the sins of Christ’s people are atoned… (more…)

Monday, April 15, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” ~ Psalm 22:1 ~ We here behold the Saviour in the depth of His sorrows. No other place so well shows the griefs of Christ as Calvary, and no other moment at Calvary is so full of agony as that in… (more…)

Sunday, April 14, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head.” ~ Psalm 22:7 ~ Mockery was a great ingredient in our Lord’s woe. Judas mocked Him in the garden; the chief priests and scribes laughed Him to scorn; Herod set Him at… (more…)

Saturday, April 13, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me.” ~ Song of Solomon 1:13 ~ Myrrh may well be chosen as the type of Jesus on account of its preciousness, its perfume, its pleasantness, its healing, preserving, disinfecting qualities, and its connection with sacrifice. But why is He compared to… (more…)

Friday, April 12, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “My heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.” ~Psalm 22:14 ~ Our blessed Lord experienced a terrible sinking and melting of soul. “The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a wounded spirit who can bear?” Deep depression of spirit is the… (more…)

Thursday, April 11, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint.” ~ Psalm 22:14 ~ Did earth or heaven ever behold a sadder spectacle of woe! In soul and body, our Lord felt Himself to be weak as water poured upon the ground. The placing of the… (more…)

Wednesday, April 10, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The place which is called Calvary.” ~ Luke 23:33 ~ The hill of comfort is the hill of Calvary; the house of consolation is built with the wood of the cross; the temple of heavenly blessing is founded upon the riven rock—riven by the spear which pierced His side. No… (more…)

Tuesday, April 09, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And there followed Him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented Him.” ~ Luke 23:27 ~ Amid the rabble rout which hounded the Redeemer to His doom, there were some gracious souls whose bitter anguish sought vent in wailing and lamentations—fit music to accompany… (more…)

Monday, April 08, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “If they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?” ~ Luke 23:31 ~ Among other interpretations of this suggestive question, the following is full of teaching: “If the innocent substitute for sinners, suffer thus, what will be done when the sinner himself—the dry… (more…)

Sunday, April 07, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame?” ~ Psalm 4:2 ~ An instructive writer has made a mournful list of the honours which the blinded people of Israel awarded to their long-expected King. (1.) They gave Him a procession of honour, in which… (more…)

Saturday, April 06, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp.” ~ Hebrews 13:13 ~ Jesus, bearing His cross, went forth to suffer without the gate. The Christian’s reason for leaving the camp of the world’s sin and religion is not because he loves to be singular, but because Jesus did… (more…)

Friday, April 05, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “On Him they laid the cross, that He might bear it after Jesus.” ~ Luke 23:26 ~ WE see in Simon’s carrying the cross a picture of the work of the Church throughout all generations; she is the cross-bearer after Jesus. Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as… (more…)

Thursday, April 04, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” ~ 2 Corinthians 5:21 ~ Mourning Christian! why weepest thou? Art thou mourning over thine own corruptions? Look to thy perfect Lord, and remember, thou… (more…)

Wednesday, April 03, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “They took Jesus, and led Him away.” ~ John 19:16 ~ He had been all night in agony, He had spent the early morning at the hall of Caiaphas, He had been hurried from Caiaphas to Pilate, from Pilate to Herod, and from Herod back again to Pilate; He had,… (more…)

Tuesday, April 02, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He answered him to never a word.” ~ Matthew 27:14 ~ He had never been slow of speech when He could bless the sons of men, but He would not say a single word for Himself. “Never man spake like this Man,” and never man was silent like Him. Was… (more…)

Monday, April 01, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Let Him kiss me with the kisses of His mouth.” ~ Song of Solomon 1:2 ~ For several days we have been dwelling upon the Saviour’s passion, and for some little time to come we shall linger there. In beginning a new month, let us seek the same desires after… (more…)

Sunday, March 31, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “With His stripes we are healed.” ~ Isaiah 53:5 ~ Pilate delivered our Lord to the lictors to be scourged. The Roman scourge was a most dreadful instrument of torture. It was made of the sinews of oxen, and sharp bones were inter-twisted every here and there among the sinews;… (more…)