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Tuesday, October 13, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Godly sorrow worketh repentance.”—2 Corinthians 7:10. GENUINE, spiritual mourning for sin is the work of the Spirit of God. Repentance is too choice a flower to grow in nature’s garden. Pearls grow naturally in oysters, but penitence never shows itself in sinners except divine grace works it in them. If… (more…)

Monday, October 12, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will meditate in Thy precepts.”—Psalm 119:15. THERE are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in His service. We… (more…)

Sunday, October 11, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.”—Lamentations 3:41. THE act of prayer teaches us our unworthiness, which is a very salutary lesson for such proud beings as we are. If God gave us favours without constraining us to pray for them we should… (more…)

Saturday, October 10, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Faultless before the presence of His glory.”—Jude 24. REVOLVE in your mind that wondrous word, faultless!” We are far off from it now; but as our Lord never stops short of perfection in His work of love, we shall reach it one day. The Saviour who will keep His people… (more…)

Friday, October 09, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Able to keep you from falling.”—Jude 24. IN some sense the path to heaven is very safe, but in other respects there is no road so dangerous. It is beset with difficulties. One false step (and how easy it is to take that if grace be absent), and down we… (more…)

Thursday, October 08, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.”—Luke 5:4. WE learn from this narrative, the necessity of human agency. The draught of fishes was miraculous, yet neither the fisherman nor his boat, nor his fishing tackle were ignored; but all were used to take the… (more…)

Wednesday, October 07, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Wherefore hast Thou afflicted Thy servant?”—Numbers 11:11. OUR heavenly Father sends us frequent troubles to try our faith. If our faith be worth anything, it will stand the test. Gilt is afraid of fire, but gold is not: the paste gem dreads to be touched by the diamond, but the… (more…)

Tuesday, October 06, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst.”—John 4:14. HE who is a believer in Jesus finds enough in his Lord to satisfy him now, and to content him for evermore. The believer is not the man whose days are weary for want of comfort,… (more…)

Monday, October 05, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights.”—1 Kings 19:8. ALL the strength supplied to us by our gracious God is meant for service, not for wantonness or boasting. When the prophet Elijah found the cake baked on… (more…)

Sunday, October 04, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “At evening time it shall be light.”—Zechariah 14:7. OFTEN TIMES we look forward with forebodings to the time of old age, forgetful that at eventide it shall be light. To many saints, old age is the choicest season in their lives. A balmier air fans the mariner’s cheek as he… (more…)

Saturday, October 03, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?”—Hebrews 1:14. ANGELS are the unseen attendants of the saints of God; they bear us up in their hands, lest we dash our foot against a stone. Loyalty to their Lord leads them… (more…)

Friday, October 02, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The hope which is laid up for you in heaven.”—Colossians 1:5. OUR hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy here. It will animate our hearts to think often of heaven, for all that we can desire is promised there. Here we are… (more…)

Thursday, October 01, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.”—Song of Solomon 7:13. THE spouse desires to give to Jesus all that she produces. Our heart has “all manner of pleasant fruits,” both “old and new,” and they are laid up for our Beloved. At… (more…)

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Sing forth the honour of His name, make His praise glorious.”—Psalm 66:2. I is not left to our own option whether we shall praise God or not. Praise is God’s most righteous due, and every Christian, as the recipient of His grace, is bound to praise God from day to… (more…)

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague.”—Leviticus 13:13. STRANGE enough this regulation appears, yet there was wisdom in it, for the throwing out of the disease proved that the constitution was sound. This morning it may be well for… (more…)

Monday, September 28, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The Lord looketh from heaven; He beholdeth all the sons of men.”—Psalm 33:13. PERHAPS no figure of speech represents God in a more gracious light than when He is spoken of as stooping from His throne, and coming down from heaven to attend to the wants and to behold the… (more…)

Sunday, September 27, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord!”—Deuteronomy 33:29. HE who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it. It were strange indeed, if it made us wretched, for see to what a position it exalts us!… (more…)

Saturday, September 26, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The myrtle trees that were in the bottom.”—Zechariah 1:8. THE vision in this chapter describes the condition of Israel in Zechariah’s day; but being interpreted in its aspect towards us, it describes the Church of God as we find it now in the world. The Church is compared to a… (more…)

Friday, September 25, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Just, and the justifier of him which believeth.”—Romans 3:26. BEING justified by faith, we have peace with God. Conscience accuses no longer. Judgment now decides for the sinner instead of against him. Memory looks back upon past sins, with deep sorrow for the sin, but yet with no dread of… (more…)

Thursday, September 24, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek Him; but His power and… (more…)

Wednesday, September 23, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Accepted in the beloved.”—Ephesians 1:6. WHAT a state of privilege! It includes our justification before God, but the term acceptance” in the Greek means more than that. It signifies that we are the objects of divine complacence, nay, even of divine delight. How marvellous that we, worms, mortals, sinners, should… (more…)

Tuesday, September 22, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Let Israel rejoice in him.”—Psalm 149:2. BE glad of heart, O believer, but take care that thy gladness has its spring in the Lord. Thou hast much cause for gladness in thy God, for thou canst sing with David, “God, my exceeding joy.” Be glad that the Lord reigneth, that… (more…)

Monday, September 21, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will rejoice over them to do them good.”—Jeremiah 32:41. HOW heart-cheering to the believer is the delight which God has in His saints! We cannot see any reason in ourselves why the Lord should take pleasure in us; we cannot take delight in ourselves, for we often have to… (more…)

Sunday, September 20, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.”—Judges 7:20. GIDEON ordered his men to do two things: covering up a torch in an earthen pitcher, he bade them, at an appointed signal, break the pitcher and let the light shine, and then sound with the trumpet, crying, “The sword of… (more…)

Saturday, September 19, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.”—Galatians 5:1. THIS “liberty” makes us free to heaven’s charter—the Bible. Here is a choice passage, believer, “When thou passest through the rivers, I will be with thee.” You are free to that. Here is another: “The mountains shall depart, and the hills… (more…)

Friday, September 18, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” —Galatians 5:25. THE two most important things in our holy religion are the life of faith and the walk of faith. He who shall rightly understand these is not far from being a master in experimental theology,… (more…)

Thursday, September 17, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Bring him unto me.”—Mark 9:19. DESPAIRINGLY the poor disappointed father turned away from the disciples to their Master. His son was in the worst possible condition, and all means had failed, but the miserable child was soon delivered from the evil one when the parent in faith obeyed the Lord… (more…)

Wednesday, September 16, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Partakers of the divine nature.”—2 Peter 1:4. TO be a partaker of the divine nature is not, of course, to become God. That cannot be. The essence of Deity is not to be participated in by the creature. Between the creature and the Creator there must ever be a gulf… (more…)

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He shall not be afraid of evil tidings.”—Psalm 112:7. CHRISTIAN, you ought not to dread the arrival of evil tidings; because if you are distressed by them, what do you more than other men? Other men have not your God to fly to; they have never proved His faithfulness as… (more…)

Monday, September 14, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “There were also with Him other little ships.”—Mark 4:36. JESUS was the Lord High Admiral of the sea that night, and His presence preserved the whole convoy. It is well to sail with Jesus, even though it be in a little ship. When we sail in Christ’s company, we may… (more…)

Sunday, September 13, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well, the rain also filleth the pools.”—Psalm 84:6. THIS teaches us that the comfort obtained by a one may often prove serviceable to another; just as wells would be used by the company who came after. We read some book… (more…)

Saturday, September 12, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “God is jealous.”—Nahum 1:2. YOUR Lord is very jealous of your love, O believer. Did He choose you? He cannot bear that you should choose another. Did He buy you with His own blood? He cannot endure that you should think that you are your own, or that you belong… (more…)

Friday, September 11, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Be ye separate.”—2 Corinthians 6:17. THE Christian, while in the world, is not to be of the world. He should be distinguished from it in the great object of his life. To him, “to live,” should be “Christ.” Whether he eats, or drinks, or whatever he does, he should do… (more…)

Thursday, September 10, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him.”—Mark 3:13. HERE was sovereignty. Impatient spirits may fret and fume, because they are not called to the highest places in the ministry; but reader be it thine to rejoice that Jesus… (more…)

Wednesday, September 09, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not.”—Jeremiah 33:3. THERE are different translations of these words. One version renders it, “I will shew thee great and fortified things.” Another, “Great and reserved things.” Now, there are reserved and special things in Christian experience:… (more…)