Category Archives: Evening’s With Spurgeon

Sunday, February 22, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power.”—Nahum 1:3. JEHOVAH “is slow to anger.” When mercy cometh into the world she driveth winged steeds; the axles of her chariot-wheels are red hot with speed; but when wrath goeth forth, it toileth on with tardy footsteps, for God taketh… (more…)

Saturday, February 21, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Understandest thou what thou readest?”—Acts 8:30. WE should be abler teachers of others, and less liable to be carried about by every wind of doctrine, if we sought to have a more intelligent understanding of the Word of God. As the Holy Ghost, the Author of the Scriptures is He… (more…)

Friday, February 20, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.”—Matthew 4:1. A holy character does not avert temptation—Jesus was tempted. When Satan tempts us, his sparks fall upon tinder; but in Christ’s case, it was like striking sparks on water; yet the enemy continued… (more…)

Thursday, February 19, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He first findeth his own brother Simon.”—John 1:41. THIS case is an excellent pattern of all cases where spiritual life is vigorous. As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others. I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if… (more…)

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Father, I have sinned.”—Luke 15:18. IT is quite certain that those whom Christ has washed in His precious blood need not make a confession of sin, as culprits or criminals, before God the Judge, for Christ has for ever taken away all their sins in a legal sense, so that… (more…)

Tuesday, February 17, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Whereas the Lord was there.”—Ezekiel 35:10. EDOM’S princes saw the whole country left desolate, and counted upon its easy conquest; but there was one great difficulty in their way—quite unknown to them—“The Lord was there”; and in His presence lay the special security of the chosen land. Whatever may be… (more…)

Monday, February 16, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thy good Spirit.”—Nehemiah 9:20. COMMON, too common is the sin of forgetting the Holy Spirit. This is folly and ingratitude. He deserves well at our hands, for He is good, supremely good. As God, He is good essentially. He shares in the threefold ascription of Holy, holy, holy, which ascends… (more…)

Sunday, February 15, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Whereby they have made Thee glad.”—Psalm 45:8. AND who are thus privileged to make the Saviour glad? His church—His people. But is it possible? He makes us glad, but how can we make Him glad? By our love. Ah! we think it so cold, so faint; and so, indeed, we… (more…)

Saturday, February 14, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “She was healed immediately.”—Luke 8:47. ONE of the most touching and teaching of the Saviour’s miracles is before us to-night. The woman was very ignorant. She imagined that virtue came out of Christ by a law of necessity, without His knowledge or direct will. Moreover, she was a stranger to… (more…)

Friday, February 13, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “There is therefore now no condemnation.”—Romans 8:1. COME, my soul, think thou of this. Believing in Jesus, thou art actually and effectually cleared from guilt; thou art led out of thy prison. Thou art no more in fetters as a bond-slave; thou art delivered now from the bondage of the… (more…)

Thursday, February 12, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever.”—John 14:16. GREAT Father revealed Himself to believers of old before the coming of His Son, and was known to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as the God Almighty. Then Jesus came, and the ever-blessed Son in His… (more…)

 Wednesday, February 11, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thou hast left thy first love.”—Revelation 2:4. EVER to be remembered is that best and brightest of hours, when first we saw the Lord, lost our burden, received the roll of promise, rejoiced in full salvation, and went on our way in peace. It was spring time in the soul;… (more…)

Tuesday, February 10, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto Me; for I have redeemed thee.”—Isaiah 44:22. ATTENTIVELY observe THE INSTRUCTIVE SIMILITUDE: our sins are like a cloud. As clouds are of many shapes and shades, so are our transgressions. As clouds… (more…)

Monday, February 09, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil [or, the evil one].”—Luke 11:4. WHAT we are taught to seek or shun in prayer, we should equally pursue or avoid in action. Very earnestly, therefore, should we avoid temptation, seeking to walk so guardedly in the path of obedience,… (more…)

 Sunday, February 08, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He shall save His people from their sins.”—Matthew 1:21. MANY persons, if they are asked what they understand by salvation, will reply, “Being saved from hell and taken to heaven.” This is one result of salvation, but it is not one tithe of what is contained in that boon. It… (more…)

Saturday, February 07, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither.”—Revelation 11:12. WITHOUT considering these words in their prophetical connection, let us regard them D as the invitation of our great Forerunner to His sanctified people. In due time there shall be heard “a great voice from… (more…)

Friday, February 06, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Pray one for another.”—James 5:16. AS an encouragement cheerfully to offer intercessory prayer, remember that such prayer is the sweetest God ever hears, for the prayer of Christ is of this character. In all the incense which our Great High Priest now puts into the golden censer, there is not… (more…)

Thursday, February 05, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “At that time Jesus answered.”—Matthew 11:25. THIS is a singular way in which to commence a verse—”At that time Jesus answered.” If you will look at the context you will not perceive that any person had asked Him a question, or that He was in conversation with any human being.… (more…)

Wednesday, February 04, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Your refuge from the avenger of blood.”—Joshua 20:3. IT is said that in the land of Canaan, cities of refuge were so arranged, that any man might reach one of them within half a day at the utmost. Even so the word of our salvation is near to us; Jesus… (more…)

Tuesday, February 03, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Tell me . . . where Thou feedest, where Thou makest Thy flock to rest at noon.”—Song of Solomon 1:7. THESE words express the desire of the believer after Christ, and his longing for present communion with Him. Where doest Thou feed Thy flock? In Thy house? I will go,… (more…)

Monday, February 02, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And these are ancient things.”—1 Chronicles 4:22. YET not so ancient as those precious things which are the delight of our souls. Let us for a moment recount them, telling them over as misers count their gold. The sovereign choice of the Father, by which He elected us unto eternal… (more…)

Sunday, February 01, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thy love to me was wonderful.”—2 Samuel 1:26. COME, dear readers, let each one of us speak for himself of the wonderful love, not of Jonathan, but of Jesus. We will not relate what we have been told, but the things which we have tasted and handled-of the love of… (more…)

Saturday, January 31, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.”—2 Samuel 18:23. RUNNING is not everything, there is much in the way which we select: a swift foot over hill and down dale will not keep pace with a slower traveller upon level ground. How is it with… (more…)

Friday, January 30, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “In whom also we have obtained an inheritance.”—Ephesians 1:11. WHEN Jesus gave Himself for us, He gave us all the rights and privileges which went with Himself; so that now, although as eternal God, He has essential rights to which no creature may venture to pretend, yet as Jesus, the… (more…)

Thursday, January 29, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The dove came in to him in the evening.”—Genesis 8:11. BLESSED be the Lord for another day of mercy, even though I am now weary with its toils. Unto the preserver of men lift I my song of gratitude. The dove found no rest out of the ark, and therefore… (more…)

Wednesday, January 28, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.”—Luke 2:20. WHAT was the subject of their praise? They praised God for what they had heard—for the good tidings of great joy that a Saviour was… (more…)

Tuesday, January 27, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.”—Luke 2:19. THERE was an exercise, on the part of this blessed woman, of three powers of her being: her memory—she kept all these things; her affections—she kept them in her heart; her intellect—she pondered them; so that memory,… (more…)

Monday, January 26, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “All they that heard it wondered at those things.”—Luke 2:18. WE must not cease to wonder at the great marvels of our God. It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God’s glory,… (more…)

Sunday, January 25, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.”—Romans 3:31. WHEN the believer is adopted into the Lord’s family, his relationship to old Adam and the law ceases at once; but then he is under a new rule, and a new covenant. Believer,… (more…)

Saturday, January 24, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Martha was cumbered about much serving.”—Luke 10:40. HER fault was not that she served: the condition of a servant well becomes every Christian. “I serve,” should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven. Nor was it her fault that she had “much serving.” We… (more…)

Saturday, January 23, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “We will remember Thy love more than wine.”—Song of Solomon 1:4. JESUS will not let His people forget His love. If all the love they have enjoyed should be forgotten, He will visit them with fresh love. “Do you forget my cross?” says He, “I will cause you to remember… (more…)

Thursday, January 22, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Doth Job fear God for nought?”—Job 1:9. THIS was the wicked question of Satan concerning that upright man of old, but there are many in the present day concerning whom it might be asked with justice, for they love God after a fashion because He prospers them; but if things… (more…)

Wednesday, January 21, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He was sore athirst, and called on the Lord, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of Thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst?”—Judges 15:18. SAMSON was thirsty and ready to die. The difficulty was totally different from any which the hero had met… (more…)

Tuesday, January 20, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken Thou me in Thy way.”—Psalm 119:37. THERE are divers kinds of vanity. The cap and bells of the fool, the mirth of the world, the dance, the lyre, and the cup of the dissolute, all these men know to be vanities;… (more…)

Monday, January 19, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures.”—Luke 24:45. HE whom we viewed last evening as opening Scripture, we here perceive opening the understanding. In the first work He has many fellow-labourers, but in the second He stands alone; many can bring the Scriptures to the mind,… (more…)