Category Archives: ~ To God Be the Glory ~

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.01.24

“They did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.” ~ Joshua 5:12 ~ ISRAEL’S weary wanderings were all over, and the promised rest was attained. No more moving tents, fiery serpents, fierce Amalekites, and howling wildernesses: they came to the land which flowed with milk and honey, and they ate the old corn of the land.… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.31.23

“The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.”~ Jeremiah 8:20 ~ Not saved! Dear reader, is this your mournful plight? Warned of the judgment to come, bidden to escape for your life, and yet at this moment not saved! You know the way of salvation, you read it in the Bible, you hear it from… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.31.23

No Stranger in Heaven “Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.”~ Psalm 73:24 ~ From day to day and from year to year my faith believes in the wisdom and love of God, and I know that I shall not believe in vain. No good word of His has ever failed, and I am… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.31.23

“They did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.”~ Joshua 5:1 ~ Israel’s weary wanderings were all over, and the promised rest was attained. No more moving tents, fiery serpents, fierce Amalekites, and howling wildernesses: they came to the land which flowed with milk and honey, and they ate the old corn of the land. Perhaps… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.30.23

“Knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end?”~ 2 Samuel 2:26 ~ O my reader! thou art merely a professor, and not a possessor of the faith that is in Christ Jesus, the following lines are a true ketch of thine end. You are a respectable attendant at a place of worship; you go because others… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.30.23

Loved to Perfection “Having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.”~ John 13:1 ~ This fact is essentially a promise; for what our Lord was He is, and what He was to those with whom He lived on earth, He will be to all His beloved so long as the moon endureth. “Having… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.30.23

“Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof.”~ Ecclesiastes 7:8 ~ Look at David’s Lord and Master; see His beginning. He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Would you see the end? He sits at His Father’s right hand, expecting until His enemies be made his footstool. “As He… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.29.23

“What think ye of Christ?”~ Matthew 22:42 ~ The great test of your soul’s health is, What think you of Christ? Is He to you “fairer than the children of men “the chief among ten thousand” the “altogether lovely”? Wherever Christ is thus esteemed, all the faculties of the spiritual man exercise themselves with energy. I will judge of your… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.29.23

He Will Carry Us Home “And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.”~ Isaiah 46:4 ~ The year is very old, and here is a promise for our aged friends; yes, and for us all,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.29.23

“Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.”~ 1 Samuel 7:12 ~ The word “hitherto” seems like a hand pointing in the direction of the past. Twenty years or seventy, and yet, “hitherto the Lord hath helped!” Through poverty, through wealth, through sickness, through health, at home, abroad, on the land, on the sea, in honour, in dishonour, in perplexity, in joy,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.28.23

“I came not to send peace on earth, but a sword.”~  Matthew 10:34 ~ The Christian will be sure to make enemies. It will be one of his objects to make none; but if to do the right, and to believe the I true, should cause him to lose every earthly friend, he will count it but a small loss,… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.28.23

Absolute Assurance “He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”  ~ Hebrews 13:5 ~ Several times in the Scriptures the Lord hath said this. He has often repeated it to make our assurance doubly sure. Let us never harbor a doubt about it. In itself the promise is specially emphatic. In the Greek it has five negatives,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.27.23

“And the LORD shall guide thee continually.”~ Isaiah 58:11 ~ The Lord shall guide thee.” Not an angel, but JEHOVAH shall guide thee. He said He would not go through the wilderness before His people, an angel should go before them to lead them in the way; but Moses said, “If Thy presence go not with me, carry us not… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.27.23

His Kindness and Covenant “For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.”~ Isaiah 54:10 ~ One of the most delightful qualities of divine love is its abiding character. The pillars of the earth… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.27.23

“Can the rush grow up without mire?”~ Job 8:11 ~ The rush is spongy and hollow, and even so is a hypocrite; there is no substance or stability in him. It is shaken to and fro in every wind just as formalists yield to every influence; for this reason the rush is not broken by the tempest, neither are hypocrites… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.26.23

“Lo, I am with you alway.”~ Matthew 28:20 ~ The Lord Jesus is in the midst of His church; He walketh among the golden candlesticks; His promise is, “Lo, I am with you alway.” He is as surely with us now as He was with the disciples at the lake, when they saw coals of fire, and fish laid thereon… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.26.23

God Only, You Can Trust “Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.”~ Matthew 26:33 ~ “Why,” cries one, “this is no promise of God.” Just so, but it was a promise of man, and therefore it came to nothing. Peter thought that he was saying what… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.26.23

“The last Adam.”~ 1 Corinthians 15:45 ~ Jesus is the federal head of His elect. As in Adam, every heir of flesh and blood has a personal interest, because he is the covenant head and representative of the race as considered under the law of works; so under the law of grace, every redeemed soul is one with the Lord… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.25.23

“And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.”~ Job 1:5… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.25.23

“Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”~ Isaiah 7:14 ~ Let us to-day go down to Bethlehem, and in company with wondering shepherds and adoring Magi, let us see Him who was born King of the Jews, for we by faith can claim an interest in Him, and can sing, “Unto us… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.24.23

Over Jordan with Singing “Thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee.”~ Deuteronomy 33:29 ~ That archenemy, the devil, is a liar from the beginning; but he is so very plausible that, like mother Eve, we are led to believe him. Yet in our experience we shall prove him a liar. He says that we shall fall from grace, dishonor… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.24.23

“For your sakes he became poor.”~ 2 Corinthians 8:9 ~ The Lord Jesus Christ was eternally rich, glorious, and exalted; but “though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor.” As the rich saint cannot be true in his communion with his poor brethren unless of his substance he ministers to their necessities, so (the same rule holding… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.24.23

“The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.”~ Isaiah 40:5 ~ We anticipate the happy day when the whole world shall be converted to Christ; when the gods of the heathen shall be cast to the moles and the bats; when Romanism shall be exploded, and the crescent of Mohammed shall wane, never… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.23.23

“The night also is Thine.”~ Psalm 74:16 ~ Yes, Lord, Thou dost not abdicate Thy throne when the sun goeth down, nor dost Thou leave the world all through these long wintry nights to be the prey of evil; Thine eyes watch us as the stars, and Thine arms surround us as the zodiac belts the sky. The dews of… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.23.23

Precious Things “And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath.”~ Deuteronomy 33:13 ~ We may be rich in such things as Joseph obtained, and we may have them in a higher sense. Oh, for “the precious things of heaven”! Power… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.23.23

“Friend, go up higher.”~ Luke 14:10 ~ When first the life of grace begins in the soul, we do indeed draw near to God, but it is with great fear and trembling. The soul conscious of guilt, and humbled thereby, is overawed with the solemnity of its position; it is cast to the earth by a sense of the grandeur… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.22.23

“The spot of His children.”~ Deuteronomy 32:5 ~ What is the secret spot which infallibly betokens the child of God? It were vain presumption to decide this upon our own judgment; but God’s word reveals it to us, and we may tread surely where we have revelation to be our guide. Now, we are told concerning our Lord, “to as… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.22.23

Immediately Present “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”~ Psalm 46:1 ~ A help that is not present when we need it is of small value. The anchor which is left at home is of no use to the seaman in the hour of storm; the money which he used to have is of no… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.22.23

“I will strengthen thee.”~ Isaiah 41:10 ~ God has a strong reserve with which to discharge this engagement; for He is able to do all things. Believer, till thou canst drain dry the ocean of omnipotence, till thou canst break into pieces the towering mountains of almighty strength, thou never needest to fear. Think not that the strength of man… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.21.23

“I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.”~ Ezekiel 16:10 ~ See with what matchless generosity the Lord provides for His people’s apparel. They are so arrayed that the divine skill is seen producing an unrivalled broidered work, in which every… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.21.23

From Anger to Love “He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.”  ~ Micah 7:19 ~ God never turns from His love, but He soon turns from His wrath. His love to His chosen is according to His nature; His… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.21.23

“Yet He hath made with me an everlasting covenant.”~ 2 Samuel 23:5 ~ This covenant is divine in its origin. “HE hath made with me an everlasting covenant.” Oh that great word HE! Stop, my soul. God, the everlasting Father, has positively made a covenant with thee; yes, that God who spake the world into existence by a word; He,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.20.23

“Call thy labourers, and give them their hire.”~ Matthew 20:8 ~ God is a good paymaster; He pays His servants while at work as well as when they have done it; and one of His payments is this: an easy conscience. If you have spoken faithfully of Jesus to one person, when you go to bed at night you feel… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.20.23

Men as Men; God as God “I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; and forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.20.23

“Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love.” ~ Jeremiah 31:3 ~ Sometimes the Lord Jesus tells His Church His love thoughts. “He does not think it enough behind her back to tell it, but in her very presence He says, ‘Thou art all fair, my love.’ It is true, this is not His ordinary method; He is a… (more…)

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