Category Archives: Morning’s With Spurgeon

Wednesday, October 18, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thy paths drop fatness.” ~ Psalm 65:11 ~ Many are “the paths of the Lord” which “drop fatness,” but an especial one is the path of prayer. No believer, who is much in the closet, will have need to cry, “My leanness, my leanness; woe unto me.” Starving souls live… (more…)

Tuesday, October 17, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul.”  ~ 1 Samuel 27:1 ~ The thought of David’s heart at this time was a false thought, because he certainly had no ground for thinking that God’s anointing him by Samuel was intended… (more…)

Monday, October 16, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine.” ~ John 21:12 ~ In these words the believer is invited to a holy nearness to Jesus. “Come and dine,” implies the same table, the same meat; ay, and sometimes it means to sit side by side, and lean our head upon the… (more…)

Sunday, October 15, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “But who may abide the day of his coming?” ~ Malachi 3:2 ~ His first coming was without external pomp or show of power, and yet in truth there were few who could abide its testing might. Herod and all Jerusalem with him were stirred at the news of the… (more…)

Saturday, October 14, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.”  ~ Philippians 3:8 ~ Spritual knowledge of Christ will be a personal knowledge. I cannot know Jesus through another person’s acquaintance with Him. No, I must know Him myself; I must know Him… (more…)

Friday, October 13, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Godly sorrow worketh repentance.”   ~ 2 Corinthians 7:10 ~ Genuine, spiritual mourning for sin is the work of the Spirit of God. Repentance is too choice a flower to grow in nature’s garden. Pearls grow naturally in oysters, but penitence never shows itself in sinners except divine grace works it… (more…)

Thursday, October 12, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will meditate in Thy precepts.” ~ Psalm 119:15 ~ There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in… (more…)

Wednesday, October 11, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.” ~ Lamentations 3:41 ~ The act of prayer teaches us our unworthiness, which is a very salutary lesson for such proud beings as we are. If God gave us favours without constraining us to pray for… (more…)

Tuesday, October 10, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Faultless before the presence of His glory.” ~ Jude 24 ~ Revolve in your mind that wondrous word, faultless!” We are far off from it now; but as our Lord never stops short of perfection in His work of love, we shall reach it one day. The Saviour who will… (more…)

Monday, October 09, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Able to keep you from falling.” ~ Jude 24 ~ In some sense the path to heaven is very safe, but in other respects there is no road so dangerous. It is beset with difficulties. One false step (and how easy it is to take that if grace be absent),… (more…)

Sunday, October 08, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.” ~ Luke 5:4 ~ We learn from this narrative, the necessity of human agency. The draught of fishes was miraculous, yet neither the fisherman nor his boat, nor his fishing tackle were ignored; but all were used… (more…)

Saturday, October 07, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Wherefore hast Thou afflicted Thy servant?” ~ Numbers 11:11 ~ Our heavenly Father sends us frequent troubles to try our faith. If our faith be worth anything, it will stand the test. Gilt is afraid of fire, but gold is not: the paste gem dreads to be touched by the… (more…)

Friday, October 06, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst.” ~ John 4:14 ~ He who is a believer in Jesus finds enough in his Lord to satisfy him now, and to content him for evermore. The believer is not the man whose days are weary for… (more…)

Thursday, October 05, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights.” ~ 1 Kings 19:8 ~ All the strength supplied to us by our gracious God is meant for service, not for wantonness or boasting. When the prophet Elijah found the… (more…)

Wednesday, October 04, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “At evening time it shall be light.”   ~ Zechariah 14:7 ~ Often times we look forward with forebodings to the time of old age, forgetful that at eventide it shall be light. To many saints, old age is the choicest season in their lives. A balmier air fans the mariner’s… (more…)

Tuesday, October 03, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?” ~Hebrews 1:14 ~ Angels are the unseen attendants of the saints of God; they bear us up in their hands, lest we dash our foot against a stone. Loyalty to their Lord… (more…)

Monday, October 02, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The hope which is laid up for you in heaven.” ~ Colossians 1:5 ~ Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy here. It will animate our hearts to think often of heaven, for all that we can desire is promised there.… (more…)

Sunday, October 01, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.”      ~ Song of Solomon 7:13 ~ The spouse desires to give to Jesus all that she produces. Our heart has “all manner of pleasant fruits,” both “old and new,” and they are laid up for… (more…)

Saturday, September 30, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Sing forth the honour of His name, make His praise glorious.”  ~ Psalm 66:2 ~ It is not left to our own option whether we shall praise God or not. Praise is God’s most righteous due, and every Christian, as the recipient of His grace, is bound to praise God… (more…)

Friday, September 29, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague.” ~ Leviticus 13:13 ~ Strange enough this regulation appears, yet there was wisdom in it, for the throwing out of the disease proved that the constitution was sound. This morning it may… (more…)

Thursday, September 28, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The Lord looketh from heaven; He beholdeth all the sons of men.” ~ Psalm 33:13 ~ Perhaps no figure of speech represents God in a more gracious light than when He is spoken of as stooping from His throne, and coming down from heaven to attend to the wants and… (more…)

Wednesday, September 27, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord!” ~ Deuteronomy 33:29 ~ He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it. It were strange indeed, if it made us wretched, for see to what a position… (more…)

Tuesday, September 26, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The myrtle trees that were in the bottom.”  ~ Zechariah 1:8 ~ The vision in this chapter describes the condition of Israel in Zechariah’s day; but being interpreted in its aspect towards us, it describes the Church of God as we find it now in the world. The Church is… (more…)

Monday, September 25, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Just, and the justifier of him which believeth.” ~ Romans 3:26 ~ Being justified by faith, we have peace with God. Conscience accuses no longer. Judgment now decides for the sinner instead of against him. Memory looks back upon past sins, with deep sorrow for the sin, but yet with… (more…)

Sunday, September 24, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek Him; but His power and… (more…)

Saturday, September 23, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Accepted in the beloved.” ~ Ephesians 1:6 ~ What a state of privilege! It includes our justification before God, but the term acceptance” in the Greek means more than that. It signifies that we are the objects of divine complacence, nay, even of divine delight. How marvellous that we, worms,… (more…)

Friday, September 22, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Let Israel rejoice in him.” ~ Psalm 149:2 ~ Be glad of heart, O believer, but take care that thy gladness has its spring in the Lord. Thou hast much cause for gladness in thy God, for thou canst sing with David, “God, my exceeding joy.” Be glad that the… (more…)

Thursday, September 21, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will rejoice over them to do them good.” ~ Jeremiah 32:41 ~ How heart-cheering to the believer is the delight which God has in His saints! We cannot see any reason in ourselves why the Lord should take pleasure in us; we cannot take delight in ourselves, for we… (more…)

Wednesday, September 20, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.” ~ Judges 7:20 ~ Gideon ordered his men to do two things: covering up a torch in an earthen pitcher, he bade them, at an appointed signal, break the pitcher and let the light shine, and then sound with the trumpet, crying,… (more…)

Tuesday, September 19, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.” ~ Galatians 5:1 ~ This “liberty” makes us free to heaven’s charter—the Bible. Here is a choice passage, believer, “When thou passest through the rivers, I will be with thee.” You are free to that. Here is another: “The mountains shall depart,… (more…)

Sunday, September 17, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Bring him unto me.”  ~ Mark 9:19 ~ Despairingly the poor disappointed father turned away from the disciples to their Master. His son was in the worst possible condition, and all means had failed, but the miserable child was soon delivered from the evil one when the parent in faith… (more…)

Saturday, September 16, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Partakers of the divine nature.”  ~ 2 Peter 1:4 ~ To be a partaker of the divine nature is not, of course, to become God. That cannot be. The essence of Deity is not to be participated in by the creature. Between the creature and the Creator there must ever… (more…)

Friday, September 15, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He shall not be afraid of evil tidings.” ~ Psalm 112:7 ~ Christian, you ought not to dread the arrival of evil tidings; because if you are distressed by them, what do you more than other men? Other men have not your God to fly to; they have never proved… (more…)

Thursday, September 14, 2017 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “There were also with Him other little ships.” ~ Mark 4:36 ~ Jesus was the Lord High Admiral of the sea that night, and His presence preserved the whole convoy. It is well to sail with Jesus, even though it be in a little ship. When we sail in Christ’s… (more…)