Category Archives: Evening’s With Spurgeon

Saturday, June 20, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Straightway they forsook their nets, and followed Him.”—Mark 1:18. WHEN they heard the call of Jesus, Simon and Andrew obeyed at once without demur. If we would always, punctually and with resolute zeal, put in practice what we hear upon the spot, or at the first fit occasion, our attendance… (more…)

Friday, June 19, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “My Beloved is mine, and I am His: He feedeth among the lilies. Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my Beloved, and be Thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.”—Song of Solomon 2:16, 17. SURELY if there be a happy… (more…)

Thursday, June 18, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse.”—Song of Solomon 5:1. THE heart of the believer is Christ’s garden. He bought it with His precious blood, and He enters it and claims it as His own. A garden implies separation. It is not the open common; it is… (more…)

Wednesday, June 17, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it.”—Numbers 21:17. FAMOUS was the well of Beer in the wilderness, because it was the subject of a promise: “That is the well whereof the Lord spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them… (more…)

Tuesday, June 16, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?”—Psalm 27:1. THE Lord is my light and my salvation.” Here is personal interest, “my light,” “my salvation”; the soul is assured of it, and… (more…)

Monday, June 15, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He openeth, and no man shutteth.”—Revelation 3:7. JESUS is the keeper of the gates of paradise and before every believing soul He setteth an open door, which no man or devil shall be able to close against it. What joy it will be to find that faith in Him is… (more…)

Sunday, June 14, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face . . . because we have sinned against Thee.”—Daniel 9:8. Adeep sense and clear sight of sin, its heinousness, and the punishment which it deserves, should make us lie low before the throne. We have sinned as Christians. Alas! that it should… (more…)

Saturday, June 13, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Remove far from me vanity and lies.”—Proverbs 30:8. O my God, be not far from me.” Psalm 38:21. Here we have two great lessons—what to deprecate and what to supplicate. The happiest state of a Christian is the holiest state. As there is the most heat nearest to the sun,… (more…)

Friday, June 12, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling.” 2 Timothy 1:9. THE apostle uses the perfect tense and says, “Who hath saved us.” Believers in Christ Jesus are saved. They are not looked upon as persons who are in a hopeful state, and may ultimately be saved,… (more…)

Thursday, June 11, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “There brake He the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle.”—Psalm 76:3. OUR Redeemer’s glorious cry of “It is finished,” was the death-knell of all the adversaries of His people, the breaking of “the and the battle.” Behold the hero of Golgotha using His cross… (more…)

Wednesday, June 10, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “They are they which testify of Me.”—John 5:39. JESUS Christ is the Alpha and Omega of the Bible. He is the constant theme of its sacred pages; from first to last they testify of Him. At the creation we at once discern Him as one of the sacred Trinity; we… (more…)

Tuesday, June 09, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Search the Scriptures.”—John 5:39. THE Greek word here rendered search signifies a strict, close, diligent, curious search, such as men make when they are seeking gold, or hunters when they are in earnest after game. We must not rest content with having given a superficial reading to a chapter or… (more…)

Monday, June 08, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thou shalt see now whether My word shall come to pass unto thee or not.”—Numbers 11:23. GOD had made a positive promise to Moses that for the space of a whole month He would feed the vast host in the wilderness with flesh. Moses, being overtaken by a fit of… (more…)

Sunday, June 07, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Be zealous.”—Revelation 3:19. IF you would see souls converted, if you would hear the cry that “the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord”; if you would place crowns upon the head of the Saviour, and His throne lifted high, then be filled with zeal. For,… (more…)

Saturday, June 06, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Are they Israelites? so am I.”—2 Corinthians 11:22. WE have here A PERSONAL CLAIM, and one that needs proof. The apostle knew that His claim was indisputable, but there are many persons who have no right to the title who yet claim to belong to the Israel of God. If… (more…)

Friday, June 05, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He that loveth not knoweth not God.”—1 John 4:8. THE distinguishing mark of a Christian is his confidence in the love of Christ, and the yielding of his affections to Christ in return. First, faith sets her seal upon the man by enabling the soul to say with the apostle,… (more…)

04. Thursday, June 04, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Received up into glory.”—1 Timothy 3:16. WE have seen our well-beloved Lord in the days of His flesh, humiliated and sore vexed; for He was “despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.” He whose brightness is as the morning, wore the sackcloth of… (more…)

Wednesday, June 03, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He humbled Himself.”—Philippians 2:8. JESUS is the great teacher of lowliness of heart. We need daily to learn of Him. See the Master taking a towel and washing His disciples’ feet! Follower of Christ, wilt thou not humble thyself? See Him as the Servant of servants, and surely thou canst… (more…)

Tuesday, June 02, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Good Master.”—Matthew 19:16. IF the young man in the gospel used this title in speaking to our Lord, how much more fitly may I thus address Him! He is indeed my Master in both senses, a ruling Master and a teaching Master. I delight to run upon His errands, and… (more…)

Monday, June 01, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He will make her wilderness like Eden.”—Isaiah 51:3. METHINKS, I see in vision a howling wilderness, a great and terrible desert, like to the Sahara. I perceive nothing in it to relieve the eye, all around I am wearied with a vision of hot and arid sand, strewn with ten… (more…)

Sunday, May 31, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Who healeth all thy diseases.”—Psalm 103:3. HUMBLING as is the statement, yet the fact is certain, that we are all more or less suffering under the disease of sin. What a comfort to know that we have a great Physician who is both able and willing to heal us! Let… (more…)

Saturday, May 30, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “That henceforth we should not serve sin.”—Romans 6:6. CHRISTIAN, what hast thou to do with sin? Hath it not cost thee enough already? Burnt child, wilt thou play with the fire? What! when thou hast already been between the jaws of the lion, wilt thou step a second time into… (more…)

Friday, May 29, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho.”—Joshua 6:26. SINCE he was cursed who rebuilt Jericho, I much more the man who labours to restore Popery among us. In our fathers’ days the gigantic walls of Popery fell by the power of their… (more…)

Thursday, May 28, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.”—Lamentations 3:21. MEMORY is frequently the bondslave of despondency. Despairing minds call to remembrance every dark foreboding in the past, and dilate upon every gloomy feature in the present; thus memory, clothed in sackcloth, presents to the mind a cup of… (more…)

Wednesday, May 27, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?”—2 Samuel 9:8. IF Mephibosheth was thus humbled by David’s kindness, what shall we be in the presence of our gracious Lord? The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for… (more…)

Tuesday, May 26, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Continue in the faith.”—Acts 14:22. PERSEVERANCE is the badge of true saints. The Christian life is not a beginning only in the ways of God, but also a continuance in the same as long as life lasts. It is with a Christian as it was with the great Napoleon: he… (more…)

Monday, May 25, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And they rose up the same hour, and returned Jerusalem . . . and they told what things were done in the way, and how He was known of them.”—Luke 24:33,35. WHEN the two disciples had reached Emmaus, and were refreshing themselves at the evening meal, the mysterious stranger who… (more…)

Sunday, May 24, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ.”—Philippians 1:27. THE word “conversation” does not merely mean our talk and converse with one another, but the whole course of our life and behaviour in the world. The Greek word signifies the actions and the privileges of citizenship:… (more…)

Saturday, May 23, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money.”—Isaiah 43:24. WORSHIPPERS at the temple were wont to bring presents of sweet perfumes to be burned upon the altar of God: but Israel, in the time of her backsliding, became ungenerous, and made but few votive offerings to her Lord: this… (more…)

Friday, May 22, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Behold, Thou art fair, my Beloved.”—Song of Solomon 1:16. FROM every point our Well-beloved is most fair. Our various experiences are meant by our heavenly Father to furnish fresh standpoints from which we may view the loveliness of Jesus; how amiable are our trials when they carry us aloft where… (more…)

Thursday, May 21, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “There is corn in Egypt.”—Genesis 42:2. FAMINE pinched all the nations, and it seemed inevitable that Jacob and his family should suffer great want; but the God of providence, who never forgets the objects of electing love, had stored a granary for His people by giving the Egyptians warning of… (more…)

Wednesday, May 20, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love.”—Hosea 11:4. OUR heavenly Father often draws us with the cords of love; but ah! how backward we are to run towards Him! How slowly do we respond to His gentle impulses! He draws us to exercise a more… (more…)

Tuesday, May 19, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And he requested for himself that he might die.”—1 Kings 19:4. IT was a remarkable thing that the man who was never to die, for whom God had ordained an infinitely better lot, the man who should be carried to heaven in a chariot of fire, and be translated, that… (more…)

Monday, May 18, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Afterward.”—Hebrews 12:11. HOW happy are tried Christians, afterwards. No calm more deep than that which succeeds a storm. Who has not rejoiced in clear shinings after rain? Victorious banquets are for well-exercised soldiers. After killing the lion we eat the honey; after climbing the Hill Difficulty, we sit down in… (more…)

Sunday, May 17, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thou art My servant; I have chosen thee.”—Isaiah 41:9. IF we have received the grace of God in our hearts, its practical effect has been to make us God’s servants. We may be unfaithful servants, we certainly are unprofitable ones, but yet, blessed be His name, we are His servants,… (more…)