Category Archives: ~ To God Be the Glory ~

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.12.22

“The king’s garden.” ~ Nehemiah 3:15 ~ Mention of the king’s garden by Nehemiah brings to mind the paradise which the King of kings prepared for Adam. Sin has utterly ruined that fair abode of all delights, and driven forth the children of men to till the ground, which yields thorns and briers unto them. My soul, remember the fall,… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 04.12.22

He Remembers No More “For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” ~ Jeremiah 31:34 ~ When we know the Lord, we receive the forgiveness of sins. We know Him as the God of grace, passing by our transgressions. What a joyful discovery is this! But how divinely is this promise worded: the Lord… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.12.22

“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 most grievous of all trials; all besides is as nothing.… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.11.22

“Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.” ~ Psalm 25:18 ~ It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sins—when, being under God’s hand, we are not wholly taken up with our pain, but remember our offences against God. It is well, also, to take both sorrow… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 04.11.22

Close Fellowship “And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord.” ~ Jeremiah 31:34 ~ Truly, whatever else we do not know, we know the Lord. This day is this promise… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.11.22

“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 cross in its socket had shaken Him with great violence,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.10.22

“For there stood by me this night the angel of God.” ~ Acts 27:23. ~ Temptest and long darkness, coupled with imminent risk of shipwreck, had brought the crew of the vessel into a sad case; one man alone among them remained perfectly calm, and by his word the rest were reassured. Paul was the only man who had heart… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 04.10.22

Look and Live “And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shalt come to pass, that everyone that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.” ~ Numbers 21:8 ~ This is a glorious gospel type. Jesus, numbered with the transgressors, hangs before us on the cross. A… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.10.22

“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 scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like Calvary’s… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.09.22

“Thy gentleness hath made me great.” ~ Psalm 18:35 ~ The words are capable of being translated, “Thy goodness hath made me great.” David gratefully ascribed all his greatness not to his own goodness, but the goodness of God. “Thy providence,” is another reading; and providence is nothing more than goodness in action. Goodness is the bud of which providence… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 04.09.22

The Bible’s Supreme Place Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. ~ Psalm 119:16 ~ Yes, a true love for the great Book will bring us great peace from the great God and be a great protection to us. Let us live constantly in the society of the law of the Lord, and it… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.09.22

“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 that march of woe. When my soul can, in imagination,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.08.22

“I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me.” ~ Psalm 23:4 ~ Behold, how independent of outward circumstances the Holy Ghost can make the Christian! What a bright light may shine within us when it is all dark without! How firm, how happy, how calm, how peaceful we may be, when the world shakes to and fro, and… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 04.08.22

Preserved to Work’s End ‘The Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.’ ~ Acts 23:11 ~ Are you a witness for the Lord, and are you just now in danger? Then remember that you are immortal till your work… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.08.22

“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 tree—shall fall into the hands of an angry God?” When… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.07.22

“Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, Thou God of my salvation; and my tongue shall sing aloud of Thy righteousness.” ~ Psalm 51:14 ~ In this solemn confession it is pleasing to observe that David plainly names his sin. He does not call it manslaughter, nor speak of it as an imprudence by which an unfortunate accident occurred to a… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 04.07.22

Without Fear of Man “And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee.” ~ Deuteronomy 28:10 ~ Then we can have no reason to be afraid of them. This would show a mean spirit and be a token of unbelief rather than of faith.… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.07.22

“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 Roman legionaries, Jewish priests, men and women, took a part,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.06.22

“In the name of the Lord I will destroy them.” ~ Psalm 118:12 ~ Our Lord Jesus, by His death, did not purchase a right to a part of us only, but to the entire man. He contemplated in His passion the sanctification of us wholly, spirit, soul, and body; that in this triple kingdom He Himself might reign supreme… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 04.06.22

Not Forgotten “Thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.” ~ Isaiah 44:21 ~ Our Jehovah cannot so forget His servants as to cease to love them. He chose them not for a time but forever. He knew what they would be when He called them into the divine family. He blots out their sins… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.06.22

“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 so; and the disciple must follow his Master. Christ was… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.05.22

“Before honour is humility.” ~ Proverbs 15:33 ~ Humiliation  of soul always brings a positive blessing with it. If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love. He who desires close communion with Christ should remember the word of the Lord, “To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 04.05.22

Not Forgotten Thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me. ~ Isaiah 44:21 ~ Our Jehovah cannot so forget His servants as to cease to love them. He chose them not for a time but forever. He knew what they would be when He called them into the divine family. He blots out their sins… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.05.22

“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 to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.04.22

God’s Hornets “And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee” ~ Exodus 23:28 ~ That the hornets were we need not consider. They were God’s own army which He sent before His people to sting their enemies and render Israel’s conquest easy. Our God by His own… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 04.04.22

Sensitive to Warning “Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord.” ~ 2 Kings 22:19… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.04.22

“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 art complete in Him; thou art in God’s sight as… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.03.22

“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” ~ Isaiah 53:6 ~ Here a confession of sin common to all the elect people of God. They have all fallen, and therefore, in common chorus, they all say, from the first… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 04.03.22

Sensitive to Warning “Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord.” ~ 2 Kings 22:19… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.03.22

“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, therefore, but little strength left, and yet neither refreshment nor… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.02.22

“He shall see His seed; He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.” ~ Isaiah 53:10 ~ Plead for the speedy fulfillment of this promise, all ye who love the Lord. It is easy work to pray when we are grounded and bottomed, as to our desires, upon God’s own promise. How… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 04.02.22

True Heart-Energy Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them, that thy profiting may appear to all. ~ 1 Timothy 4:15 ~ This is, practically, a promise that, by diligent meditation and the giving up of our whole mind to our work for the Lord we shall make a progress which all can see. Not by hasty reading but… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.02.22

“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 this singular silence the index of His perfect self-sacrifice? Did… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 04.01.22

“It is time to seek the Lord.” ~ Hosea 10:12 ~ This month of April is said to derive its name from the Latin verb aperio, which signifies to open, because all the buds and blossoms are now opening, and we have arrived at the gates of the flowery year. Reader, if you are yet unsaved, may your heart, in… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 04.01.22

The King’s Highway “The wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.” ~ Isaiah 35:8 ~ The way of holiness is so straight and plain that the simplest minds cannot go astray if they constantly follow it. The worldly wise have many twists and turns, and yet they make terrible blunders and generally miss their end. Worldly policy is a… (more…)

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