Category Archives: Morning’s With Spurgeon

Sunday, November 29, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people . . . Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.” ~ Leviticus 19:16, 17 ~ Tale-bearing emits a threefold poison; for it injures the teller, the hearer, and the person… (more…)

Saturday, November 28, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.” ~ 3 John 3 ~ The truth was in Gaius, and Gaius walked in the truth. If the first had not been the case, the second… (more…)

Friday, November 27, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord.” ~ Zechariah 3:1 ~ In Joshua the high priest we see a picture of each and every child of God, who has been made nigh by the blood of Christ, and has been taught to minister in holy things,… (more…)

Thursday, November 26, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.” ~ Ecclesiastes 9:10 ~ Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,” refers to works that are possible. There are many things which our heart findeth to do which we never shall do. It is well it is in our heart;… (more…)

Wednesday, November 25, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “To preach deliverance to the captives.” ~ Luke 4.18 ~ None but Jesus can give deliverance to captives. Real liberty cometh from Him only. It is a liberty righteously bestowed; for the Son, who is Heir of all things, has a right to make men free. The saints honour the… (more…)

Tuesday, November 24, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams.” ~ Isaiah 33:21 ~ Broad rivers and streams produce fertility, and abundance in the land. Places near broad rivers are remarkable for the variety of their plants and their plentiful harvests. God is all this to… (more…)

Monday, November 23, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Fellowship with Him.” ~ 1 John 1:6 ~ When we were united by faith to Christ, we were brought into such complete fellowship with Him, that we were made one with Him, and His interests and ours became mutual and identical. We have fellowship with Christ in His love. What… (more…)

Sunday, November 22, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.” ~ Hosea 12:12 ~ Jacob, while expostulating with Laban, thus describes his own toil, “This twenty years have I been with thee. That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee: I bare the loss of… (more…)

Saturday, November 21, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Grieve not the Holy Spirit.” ~ Ephesians 4:30 ~ All that the believer has must come from Christ, but it comes solely through the channel of the Spirit of grace. Moreover, as all blessings thus flow to you through the Holy Spirit, so also no good thing can come out… (more…)

Friday, November 20, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “O Lord, Thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul.” ~ Lamentations 3:58 ~ Observe how positively the prophet speaks. He doth not say, “I hope, I trust, I sometimes think, that God hath pleaded the causes of my soul”; but he speaks of it as a matter of fact… (more…)

Thursday, November 19, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Avoid foolish questions.” ~ Titus 3:9 ~ Our days are few, and are far better spent in doing good, than in disputing over matters which are, at best, of minor importance. The old schoolmen did a world of mischief by their incessant discussion of subjects of no practical importance; and… (more…)

Wednesday, November 18, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.” ~ Song of Solomon 4:12 ~ In this metaphor, which has reference to the inner life of a believer, we have very plainly the idea of secrecy. It is a spring shut up: just as there were springs in the East, over which… (more…)

Monday, November 16, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The Lord is my portion, saith my soul.” ~ Lamentations 3:24 ~ It is not “The Lord is partly my portion,” nor “The Lord is in my portion”; but He Himself makes up the sum total of my soul’s inheritance. Within the circumference of that circle lies all that we… (more…)

Sunday, November 15, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The Lord’s portion is His people.” ~ Deuteronomy 32:9 ~ How are they His? By His own sovereign choice. He chose them, and set His love upon them. This He did altogether apart from any goodness in them at the time, or any goodness which He foresaw in them. He… (more…)

Saturday, November 14, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will cut off them that worship and that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham.”  ~ Zephaniah 1:5 ~ Such persons thought themselves safe because they were with both parties: they went with the followers of Jehovah, and bowed at the same time to Malcham. But duplicity… (more…)

Friday, November 13, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon  “The branch cannot bear fruit of itself.” ~ John 15:4 ~ How did you begin to bear fruit? It was when you came to Jesus and cast yourselves on His great atonement, and rested on His finished righteousness. Ah! what fruit you had then! Do you remember those early days?… (more…)

Thursday, November 12, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The trial of your faith.” ~ 1 Peter 1:7 ~ Faith untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials. Faith never prospers so well as when all things are against her:… (more…)

Wednesday, November 11, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Underneath are the everlasting arms.” ~ Deuteronomy 33:27 ~ God—the eternal God—is Himself our support at all times, and especially when we are sinking in deep trouble. There are seasons when the Christian sinks very low in humiliation. Under a deep sense of his great sinfulness, he is humbled before… (more…)

Tuesday, November 10, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The eternal God is thy refuge.” ~Deuteronomy 33:27 ~ The word refuge may be translated “mansion,” or “abiding-place,” which gives the thought that God is our abode, our home. There is a fulness and sweetness in the metaphor, for dear to our hearts is our home, although it be the… (more…)

Monday, November 09, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “So walk ye in Him.” ~ Colossians 2:6 ~ If we have received Christ Himself in our inmost hearts, our new life will manifest its intimate acquaintance with Him by a walk of faith in Him. Walking implies action. Our religion is not to be confined to our closet; we… (more…)