Category Archives: Morning’s With 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 its all in all. Are they who stand… (more…)

“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 joint-heir-ship which the Lord hath ratified with His… (more…)

“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! The Husbandman waits until He reaps His harvest.… (more…)

“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 Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in a peculiar… (more…)

“I am with you always.”~ 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 treasures, but set thine heart upon Him who… (more…)

“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 divinity of Christ finds its surest proof in… (more…)

“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 we were chosen in Him from before the… (more…)

“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 the pool of Bethesda, he was delightfully sensible… (more…)

“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 feet! What sickening ulcers and putrefying sores! Yet… (more…)

“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 would love to do something to win Christ?… (more…)

“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 of heavens is the Lord’s, and He reigneth… (more…)

“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 still intrudes his golden calf, and the… (more…)

“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 not require much refining in the furnace of… (more…)

“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 fight of faith” will have done with… (more…)

“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 garlands of heavenly thoughts. Thou knowest whither to… (more…)

“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 chastened in this manner?” A word with… (more…)

“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 it is a great truth, that religion is… (more…)

“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 promise “He giveth power to the faint.” When… (more…)

“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 but little of Him. How seldom do we… (more…)

“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 in our experience, not as a possibility, but… (more…)

“Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.”~ Song of Solomon 2:10 ~ Lo, I hear the voice of my Beloved! He speaks to me! Fair weather is smiling upon the face of the earth, and He would not have me spiritually asleep while nature is all around me awaking from her winter’s rest. He bids me “Rise… (more…)

“And because of all this we make a sure covenant.”~ Nehemiah 9:38 ~ There are many occasions in our experience when we may very rightly, and with benefit, renew our covenant with God. After recovery from sickness when, like Hezekiah, we have had a new term of years added to our life, we may fitly do it. After any deliverance… (more…)

“Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.”~ Romans 8:37 1 ~ We go to Christ for forgiveness, and then too often look to the law for power to fight our sins. Paul thus rebukes us, “O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth? This only would… (more…)

“Him hath God exalted.” ~ Acts 5:31 ~ Jesus, our Lord, once crucified, dead and buried, now sits upon the throne of glory. The highest place that heaven affords is His by undisputed right. It is sweet to remember that the exaltation of Christ in heaven is a representative exaltation. He is exalted at the Father’s right hand, and though… (more…)

“I know that my Redeemer liveth.”~ Job 19:25 ~ The marrow of Job’s comfort lies in that little word “My”—”My Redeemer,” and in the fact that the Redeemer lives. Oh! to get hold of a living Christ. We must get a property in Him before we can enjoy Him. What is gold in the mine to me? Men are beggars… (more…)

“That through death He might destroy him that had the power of death.”~ Hebrews 2:14 ~ O child of God, death hath lost its sting, because the devil’s power over it is destroyed. Then cease to fear dying. Ask grace from God the Holy Ghost, that by an intimate knowledge and a firm belief of thy Redeemer’s death, thou mayst… (more…)

“Behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.”~ Matthew 27:51 ~ No mean miracle was wrought in the rending of so strong and thick a veil; but it was not intended merely as a display of power many lessons were herein taught us. The old law of ordinances was put away, and… (more…)

“She bound the scarlet line in the window.”~ Joshua 2:21 ~ Rahab depended for her preservation upon the promise of the spies, whom she looked upon as the representatives of the God of Israel. Her faith was simple and firm, but it was very obedient. To tie the scarlet line in the window was a very trivial act in itself,… (more…)

“We are come to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.”~ Hebrews 12:24 ~ Reader, have you come to the blood of sprinkling? The question is not whether you have come to a knowledge of doctrine, or an observance of ceremonies, or to a certain form of experience, but have you come to the blood… (more…)

“The precious blood of Christ.”~ 1 Peter 1:19 ~ Standing at the foot of the cross, we see hands, and feet, and side, all distilling crimson streams of precious blood. It is “precious” because of its redeeming and atoning efficacy. By it the sins of Christ’s people are atoned for; they are redeemed from under the law; they are reconciled… (more…)

“My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?”~ Psalm 22:1 ~ We here behold the Saviour in the depth of His sorrows. No other place so well shows the griefs of Christ as Calvary, and no other moment at Calvary is so full of agony as that in which His cry rends the air “My God, my God, why… (more…)

“All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head.”~ Psalm 22:7 ~ Mockery was a great ingredient in our Lord’s woe. Judas mocked Him in the garden; the chief priests and scribes laughed Him to scorn; Herod set Him at nought; the servants and the soldiers jeered at Him, and brutally… (more…)

“A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me.”~ Song of Solomon 1:13 ~ Myrrh may well be chosen as the type of Jesus on account of its preciousness, its perfume, its pleasantness, its healing, preserving, disinfecting qualities, and its connection with sacrifice. But why is He compared to “a bundle of myrrh”? First, for plenty. He is not a… (more…)

“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. Well… (more…)

“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, had… (more…)