Category Archives: Morning’s With Spurgeon

  Saturday, May 30, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines.” Song of Solomon 2:15 Alittle thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins do mischief to the tender heart. These little sins burrow in the soul,… (more…)

  Friday, May 29, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thou hatest wickedness.”—Psalm 45:7. BE ye angry, and sin not.” There can hardly be goodness in a man if he be not angry at sin; he who loves truth must hate every false way. How our Lord Jesus hated it when the temptation came! Thrice it assailed Him in… (more…)

Thursday, May 28, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Whom He justified, them He also glorified.”—Romans 8:30. HERE is a precious truth for thee, believer. Thou mayest be poor, or in suffering, or unknown, but for thine encouragement take a review of thy “calling” and the consequences that flow from it, and especially that blessed result here spoken of.… (more…)

Wednesday, May 27, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king’s table; and was lame on both his feet.”—2 Samuel 9:13. MEPHIBOSHETH was no great ornament to a royal table, yet he had a continual place at David’s board, because the king could see in his face the… (more…)

Tuesday, May 26, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee.”—Psalm 55:22. CARE, even though exercised upon legitimate objects, if carried to excess, has in it the nature of sin. The precept to avoid anxious care is earnestly inculcated by our Saviour, again and again; it is reiterated by the… (more…)

Monday, May 25, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Forsake me not, O Lord.”—Psalm 38:21. FREQUENTLY we pray that God would not forsake us in the hour of trial and temptation, but we too much forget that we have need to use this prayer at all times. There is no moment of our life, however holy, in which we… (more…)

Sunday, May 24, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Blessed be God, which hath nor turned away my prayer.”—Psalm 66:20. IN looking back upon the character of our prayers, if we do it honestly, we shall be filled with wonder that God has ever answered them. There may be some who think their prayers worthy of acceptance—as the Pharisee… (more…)

Saturday, May 23, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me.”—Psalm 138:8. MOST manifestly the confidence which the Psalmist here expressed was a divine confidence. He did not say, “I have grace enough to perfect that which concerneth me—my faith is so steady that it will not stagger—my love is so warm that… (more…)

Friday, May 22, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He led them forth by the right way.”—Psalm 107:7. CHANGEFUL experience often leads the anxious believer to enquire “Why is it thus with me?” I looked for light, but lo, darkness came; for peace, but behold trouble. I said in my heart, my mountain standeth firm, I shall never be… (more…)

Thursday, May 21, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.”—1 Peter 2:3. IF:—THEN, this is not a matter to be taken for granted concerning every one of the human race. “If:”—then there is a possibility and a probability that some may not have tasted that the Lord is gracious.… (more…)

Wednesday, May 20, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Marvellous lovingkindness.”—Psalm 17:7. WHEN we give our hearts with our alms, we give well, but we must often plead to a failure in this respect. Not so our Master and our Lord. His favours are always performed with the love of His heart. He does not send to us the… (more…)

Tuesday, May 19, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.”—Ecclesiastes 10:7. UPSTARTS frequently usurp the highest places, while the truly great pine in obscurity. This is a riddle in providence whose solution will one day gladden the hearts of the upright; but it is so common… (more…)

Monday, May 18, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “In Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in Him.”—Colossians 2:9, 10. ALL the attributes of Christ, as God and man, are at our disposal. All the fulness of the Godhead, whatever that marvellous term may comprehend, is ours to make us complete. He… (more…)

Sunday, May 17, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “So to walk even as He walked.”—1 John 2:6. WHY should Christians imitate Christ? They should do it for their own sakes. If they desire to be in a healthy state of soul—if they would escape the sickness of sin, and enjoy the vigour of growing grace, let Jesus be… (more…)

Saturday, May 16, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Who giveth us richly all things to enjoy.”—1 Timothy 6:17. OUR Lord Jesus is ever giving, and does not for a solitary instant withdraw His hand. As long as there is a vessel of grace not yet full to the brim, the oil shall not be stayed. He is a… (more…)

Friday, May 15, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “All that believe are justified.”—Acts 13:39. THE believer in Christ receives a present justification. Faith does not produce this fruit by-and-by, but now. So far as justification is the result of faith, it is given to the soul in the moment when it closes with Christ, and accepts Him as… (more…)

Thursday, May 14, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Joint heirs with Christ.”—Romans 8:17. THE boundless realms of His Father’s universe are Christ’s by prescriptive right. As “heir of all things,” He is the sole proprietor of the vast creation of God, and He has admitted us to claim the whole as ours, by virtue of that deed of… (more…)

 Wednesday, May 13, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”—Psalm 30:5. CHRISTIAN! If thou art in a night of trial, think of the morrow; cheer up thy heart with the thought of the coming of thy Lord. Be patient, for “Lo! He comes with clouds descending.” Be patient!… (more…)

Tuesday, May 12, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And will manifest myself to him.”—John 14:21. THE Lord Jesus gives special revelations of Himself to His people. Even if Scripture did not declare this, there are many of the children of God who could testify the truth of it from their own experience. They have had manifestations of their… (more…)

Monday, May 11, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I am with you alway.”—Matthew 28:20. IT is well there is One who is ever the same, and who is ever with us. It is well there is one stable rock amidst the billows of the sea of life. O my soul, set not thine affections upon rusting, moth-eaten, decaying… (more…)

Sunday, May 10, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “But now is Christ risen from the dead.”—1 Corinthians 15:20. THE whole system of Christianity rests upon the fact that “Christ is risen from the dead;” for, “If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain: ye are yet in your sins.” The… (more…)

Saturday, May 09, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings.”—Ephesians 1:3. ALL the goodness of the past, the present, and the future, Christ bestows upon His people. In the mysterious ages of the past the Lord Jesus was His Father’s first elect, and in His election He gave us an interest, for… (more…)

Friday, May 08, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He that was healed wist not who it was.”—John 5:13. DEARS are short to the happy and healthy; but thirty-eight years of disease must have dragged a very weary length along the life of the poor impotent man. When Jesus, therefore, healed him by a word, while he lay at… (more…)

Thursday, May 07, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them all.”—Matthew 12:15. WHAT a mass of hideous sickness must have thrust itself under the eye of Jesus! Yet we read not that He was disgusted, but patiently waited on every case. What a singular variety of evils must have met at His… (more…)

Wednesday, May 06, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “We dwell in Him.”—1 John 4:13. DO you want a house for your soul? Do you ask, “What is the purchase?” It is something less than proud human nature will like to give. It is without money and without price. Ah! you would like to pay a respectable rent! You… (more…)

Tuesday, May 05, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”—2 Corinthians 6:16. WHAT a sweet title: “My people!” What a cheering revelation: “Their God!” How much of meaning is couched in those two words, “My people!” Here is speciality. The whole world is God’s; the heaven, even the heaven… (more…)

Monday, May 04, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods.”—Jeremiah 16:20. ONE great besetting sin of ancient Israel was idolatry, and the spiritual Israel are vexed with a tendency to the same folly. Remphan’s star shines no longer, and the women weep no more for Tammuz, but Mammon… (more…)

Sunday, May 03, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “In the world ye shall have tribulation.”—John 16:33. ART thou asking the reason of this, believer? Look upward to thy heavenly Father, and behold Him pure and holy. Dost thou know that thou art one day to be like Him? Wilt thou easily be conformed to His image? Wilt thou… (more…)

Saturday, May 02, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I pray not that Thou shouldst take them out of the world.”—John 17:15. IT is a sweet and blessed event which will occur to all believers in God’s own time—the going home to be with Jesus. In a few more years the Lord’s soldiers, who are now fighting “the good… (more…)

Friday, May 01, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers.”—Song of Solomon 5:13. LO, the flowery month is come! March winds and April showers have done their work, and the earth is all bedecked with beauty. Come my soul, put on thine holiday attire and go forth to gather… (more…)

Thursday, April 30, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And all the children of Israel murmured.”—Numbers 14:2. THERE are murmurers amongst Christians now, as there were in the camp of Israel of old. There are those who, when the rod falls, cry out against the afflictive dispensation. They ask, “Why am I thus afflicted? What have I done to be… (more…)

Wednesday, April 29, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thou art my hope in the day of evil.”—Jeremiah 17:17. THE path of the Christian is not always bright with sunshine; he has his seasons of darkness and of storm. True, it is written in God’s Word, “Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace;” and… (more…)

Tuesday, April 28, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Remember the word unto Thy servant, upon which Thou hast caused me to hope.”—Psalm 119:49. WHATEVER your especial need may be, you may readily find some promise in the Bible suited to it. Are you faint and feeble because your way is rough and you are weary? Here is the… (more…)

Monday, April 27, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “God, even our own God.”—Psalm 67:6. IT is strange how little use we make of the spiritual blessings which God gives us, but it is stranger still how little use we make of God Himself. Though He is “our own God,” we apply ourselves but little to Him, and ask… (more…)

Sunday, April 26, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “This do in remembrance of Me.”—1 Corinthians 11:24. IT seems then, that Christians may forget Christ! There could be no need for this loving exhortation, if there were not a fearful supposition that our memories might prove treacherous. Nor is this a bare supposition: it is, alas! too well confirmed… (more…)