Category Archives: Evening’s With Spurgeon

Tuesday, September 05, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?” ~ Job 38:16 ~ Some things in nature must remain a mystery to the most intelligent and enterprising investigators. Human knowledge has bounds beyond which it cannot pass. Universal knowledge is for God alone. If this be so in the things… (more…)

Monday, September 04, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have.” ~ Leviticus 19:36 ~ Weights, and scales, and measures were to be all according to the standard of justice. Surely no Christian man will need to be reminded of this in his business, for if righteousness… (more…)

Sunday, September 03, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The Lord trieth the righteous.” ~Psalm 11:5 ~ All events are under the control of Providence; consequently all the trials of our outward life are traceable at once to the great First Cause. Out of the golden gate of God’s ordinance the armies of trial march forth in array, clad… (more…)

Saturday, September 02, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.” ~ John 4:48 ~ A craving after marvels was a symptom of the sickly state of men’s minds in our Lord’s day; they refused solid nourishment, and pined after mere wonder. The gospel which they so greatly needed they would… (more…)

Friday, September 01, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Trust in Him at all times.” ~ Psalm 62:8 ~ Faith is as much the rule of temporal as of spiritual life; we ought to have faith in God for our earthly affairs as well as for our heavenly business. It is only as we learn to trust in God… (more…)

Thursday, August 31, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “If we walk in the light, as He is in the light.” ~ 1 John 1:7 ~ As He is in the light! Can we ever attain to this? Shall we ever be able to walk as clearly in the light as He is whom we call “Our Father,” of… (more…)

Wednesday, August 30, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed.” ~ Jeremiah 17:14 ~ “I have seen His ways, and will heal him.” ~ Isaiah 57:18 ~ It is the sole prerogative of God to remove spiritual disease. Natural disease may be instrumentally healed by men, but even then the honour… (more…)

Tuesday, August 29, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.” ~ Numbers 6:4 ~ Nazarites  had taken, among other vows, one which debarred them from the use of wine. In order that they might not violate… (more…)

Monday, August 28, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Sing, O barren.” ~ Isaiah 54:1 ~ Though we have brought forth some fruit unto Christ, and have a joyful hope that we are “plants of His own right hand planting,” yet there are times when we feel very barren. Prayer is lifeless, love is cold, faith is weak, each… (more…)

Sunday, August 27, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Into Thine hand I commit my spirit: Thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.”  ~ Psalm 31:5 ~ These words have been frequently used by holy men in their hour of departure. We may profitably consider them this evening. The object of the faithful man’s solicitude in life… (more…)

Saturday, August 26, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The people, when they beheld Him, were greatly amazed, and running to Him saluted Him.” ~ Mark 9:15 ~ How great the difference between Moses and Jesus! When the prophet of Horeb had been forty days upon the mountain, he underwent a kind of transfiguration, so that his countenance shone… (more…)

Friday, August 25, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest.” ~ Acts 8:37 ~ These words may answer your scruples, devout reader, concerning the ordinances. Perhaps you say, “I should be afraid to be baptized; it is such a solemn thing to avow myself to be dead with Christ, and buried… (more…)

Thursday, August 24, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.” ~ Exodus 22:6 ~ But what restitution can he make who casts abroad the fire-brands of error,… (more…)

Wednesday, August 23, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.” ~ Ephesians 3:17 ~ Beyond measure it is desirable that we, as believers, should have the person of Jesus constantly before us, to inflame our love towards Him, and to increase our knowledge of Him. I would to God that my… (more…)

Tuesday, August 22, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The unsearchable riches of Christ.” ~ Ephesians 3:8. ~ My Master has riches beyond the count of arithmetic, the measurement of reason, the dream of imagination, or the eloquence of words. They are unsearchable! You may look, and study, and weigh, but Jesus is a greater Saviour than you think… (more…)

Monday, August 21, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye Me in vain.”  ~Isaiah 45:19 ~ We may gain much solace by considering what God has not said. What He has said is inexpressibly full of comfort and delight; what He has not said is scarcely less rich in consolation.… (more…)

Sunday, August 20, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.” ~ Nehemiah 3:8 ~ Cities well fortified have broad walls, and so had Jerusalem in her glory. The New Jerusalem must, in like manner, be surrounded and preserved by a broad wall of nonconformity to the world, and separation from its customs… (more…)

Saturday, August 19, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for Thou art my strength.” ~ Psalm 31:4 ~ Our spiritual foes are of the serpent’s brood, a and seek to ensnare us by subtlety. The prayer before us supposes the possibility of the believer being caught… (more…)

Friday, August 18, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And they gave Him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but He received it not.” ~ Mark 15:23 ~ Agolden truth is couched in the fact that the Saviour put the myrrhed wine-cup from His lips. On the heights of heaven the Son of God stood of old, and as… (more…)

Wednesday, August 16, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit.”   ~ Romans 8:23 ~ Present possession is declared. At this present moment we have the first fruits of the Spirit. We have repentance, that gem of the first water; faith, that priceless pearl; hope, the heavenly emerald; and love, the glorious… (more…)

Tuesday, August 15, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And I will give you an heart of flesh.” ~ Ezekiel 36:26 ~ A heart of flesh is known by its tenderness concerning sin. To have indulged a foul imagination, or to have allowed a wild desire to tarry even for a moment, is quite enough to make a heart… (more…)

Monday, August 14, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I know their sorrows.” ~ Exodus 3:7 ~ The child is cheered as he sings, “This my father knows”; and shall not we be comforted as we discern that our dear Friend and tender soul-husband knows all about us? He is the Physician, and if He knows all, there is… (more…)

Sunday, August 13, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And I will remember My covenant.” ~ Genesis 9:15 ~ Mark the form of the promise. God does not say, “And when ye shall look upon the bow, and ye shall remember My covenant, then I will not destroy the earth,” but it is gloriously put, not upon our memory,… (more…)

Saturday, August 12, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The bow shall be seen in the cloud.” ~ Genesis 9:14 ~ The rainbow, the symbol of the covenant with Noah, is typical of our Lord Jesus, who is the Lord’s witness to the people. When may we expect to see the token of the covenant? The rainbow is only… (more…)

Friday, August 11, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Everlasting consolation.” ~ 2 Thessalonians 2:16 ~ Consolation.” There is music in the word: like David’s harp, it charms away the evil spirit of melancholy. It was a distinguished honour to Barnabas to be called “the son of consolation”; nay, it is one of the illustrious names of a greater… (more…)

Thursday, August 10, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins.” ~ Matthew 9:6 ~ Behold one of the great Physician’s mightiest arts: He has power to forgive sin! While here He lived below, before the ransom had been paid, before the blood had been literally sprinkled on the mercy-seat,… (more…)

Wednesday, August 09, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, o of whom He had cast seven devils.” ~ Mark 16:9 ~ Mary of Magdala was the victim of a fearful evil. She was possessed by not one devil only, but seven. These dreadful inmates caused much pain and pollution to the poor frame… (more…)

Tuesday, August 08, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “All things are possible to him that believeth.” ~ Mark 9:23 ~ Many professed Christians are always doubting and fearing, and they forlornly think that this is the necessary state of believers. This is a mistake, for “all things are possible to him that believeth”; and it is possible for… (more…)

Monday, August 07, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Satan hindered us.” ~ 1 Thessalonians 2:18 ~ Since the first hour in which goodness came into conflict with evil, it has never ceased to be true in spiritual experience, that Satan hinders us. From all points of the compass, all along the line of battle, in the vanguard and… (more…)

Sunday, August 06, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Let the whole earth be filled with His glory; Amen, and Amen.” ~ Psalm 72:19 ~ This is a large petition. To intercede for a whole city needs a stretch of faith, and there are times when a prayer for one man is enough to stagger us. But how far-reaching… (more…)

Saturday, August 05, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?” ~ Numbers 32:6 ~ Kindred has its obligations. The Reubenites and Gadites would have been unbrotherly if they had claimed the land which had been conquered, and had left the rest of the people to fight for their portions… (more…)

Friday, August 04, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands.” ~ Haggai 2:17.  ~ How destructive is the hail to the standing crops, beating out the precious grain upon the ground! How grateful ought we to be when the corn is spared… (more…)

Thursday, August 03, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “But as He went.” ~ Luke 8:42 ~ Jesus is passing through the throng to the house of Jairus, to raise the ruler’s dead daughter; but He is so profuse in goodness that He works another miracle while upon the road. While yet this rod of Aaron bears the blossom… (more…)

Wednesday, August 02, 2017 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “So she gleaned in the field until even.” ~ Ruth 2:17 ~ Let me learn from Ruth, the gleaner. As she went out to gather the ears of corn, so must I go forth into the fields of prayer, meditation, the ordinances, and hearing the word to gather spiritual food.… (more…)