Category Archives: ~ To God Be the Glory ~

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.26.24

“All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.”~ Ecclesiastes 1:7 ~ Everything sublunary is on the move, time knows nothing of rest. The solid earth is a rolling ball, and the great sun himself a star obediently fulfilling its course around some greater… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 10.26.24

Because of Us “For the elect’s sake those days be shortened.”~ Matthew 24:22 ~ For the sake of His elect the Lord withholds many judgments and shortens others. In great tribulations the fire would devour all were it not that out of regard to His elect the Lord damps the flame. Thus, while He saves His elect for the sake… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.26.24

  “Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.”~ Haggai 1:9 ~ Churlish souls stint their contributions to the ministry and missionary operations, and call… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.25.24

“She gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.”~ Ruth 2:3 ~ Her hap was. Yes, it seemed nothing but an accident, but how divinely was it overruled! Ruth had gone forth with her mother’s blessing, under the care… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 10.25.24

He Came; He Is Coming “This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.“~ Acts 1:11 ~ Many are celebrating our Lord’s first coming this day; let us turn our thoughts to the promise of His second coming. This is as sure as the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.25.24

“For the truths sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.”~ 2 John 2 ~ Once let the truth of God obtain an entrance into the human heart and subdue the whole man unto itself, no power human or infernal can dislodge it. We entertain it not as a guest but as the master of the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.24.24

“He began to wash the disciples’ feet.”~ John 13:5 ~ The Lord Jesus loves His people so much, that every day He is still doing for them much that is analogous to washing their soiled feet. Their poorest actions He accepts; their deepest sorrow He feels; their slenderest wish He hears, and their every transgression He forgives. He is still… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 10.24.24

Godly Stability “And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brazen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the Lord.”~ Jeremiah 15:20 ~ Stability in the fear and faith of God will make a man like a wall… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.24.24

“The trees of the Lord are full of sap.”~ Psalm 104:16 ~ Without sap the tree cannot flourish or even exist. Vitality is essential to a Christian. There must be life”a vital principle infused into us by God the Holy Ghost, or we cannot be trees of the Lord. The mere name of being a Christian is but a dead… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.23.24

“Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.”~ Luke 22:46 ~ When is the Christian most liable to sleep? Is it not when his temporal circumstances are prosperous? Have you not found it so? When you had daily troubles to take to the throne of grace, were you not more wakeful than you are now? Easy roads… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 10.23.24

Harvest of Light, Gladness “Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.”~ Psalm 97:11 ~ Righteousness is often costly to the man who keeps to it at all hazards, but in the end it will bear its own expenses and return an infinite profit. A holy life is like sowing seed: much is going out,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.23.24

“Will ye also go away?”~ John 6:67 ~ Many have forsaken Christ, and have walked no more with Him; but what reason have YOU to make a change? Has there been any reason for it in the past? Has not Jesus proved Himself all-sufficient? He appeals to you this morning Have I been a wilderness unto you?” When your soul… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.22.24

“I will love them freely.”~ Hosea 14:4 ~ This sentence is a body of divinity in miniature. He who understands its meaning is a theologian, and he who can dive into its fulness is a true master in Israel. It is a condensation of the glorious message of salvation which was delivered to us in Christ Jesus our Redeemer. The… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 10.22.24

Plead His Own Promise “Thou, O Lord God, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.” ~ 2 Samuel 7:29 ~ This is a promise pleaded, and so it yields double instruction to us. Anything which the Lord God has spoken we should receive as surely true and then plead it… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.21.24

“Why are ye troubled?and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?”~ Luke 24:38 ~ Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?” The Lord cares for all things, and the meanest creatures share in His universal providence, but His particular providence is over… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 10.21.24

God’s Multiplication Table “A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.”~ Isaiah 60:22 ~ Works for the Lord often begin on a small scale, and they are none the worse for this. Feebleness educates faith, brings God near, and wins glory for His name. Prize… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.21.24

“The love of Christ constraineth us.”~ 2 Corinthians 5:14 ~ How much owest thou unto my Lord? Has He ever done anything for thee? Has He forgiven thy sins? Has He covered thee with a robe of righteousness? Has He set thy feet upon a rock? Has He established thy goings? Has He prepared heaven for thee? Has He prepared… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.20.24

“Keep not back.”~Isaiah 43:6 ~ Although this message was sent to the south, and referred to the seed of Israel, it may profitably be a summons to ourselves. Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God. Reader, are you unconverted, but do you… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 10.20.24

From Every Sin “He shall save his people from their sins.”~ Matthew 1:21 ~ Lord, save me from my sins. By the name of Jesus I am encouraged thus to pray. Save me from my past sins, that the habit of them may not hold me captive. Save me from my constitutional sins, that I may not be the slave… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.20.24

“Grow up into Him in all things.”~ Ephesians 4:15 ~ Many Christians remain stunted and dwarfed in spiritual things, so as to present the same appearance year after year. No up-springing of advanced and refined feeling is manifest in them. They exist but do not “grow up into Him in all things.” But should we rest content with being in… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.19.24

“God, my Maker, who giveth songs in the night.”~ Job 35:10 ~ Any man can sing in the day. When the cup is full, man draws inspiration from it. When wealth rolls in abundance around him, any man can praise the God who gives a plenteous harvest or sends home a loaded argosy. It is easy enough for an Aeolian… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 10.19.24

Regulated Chastisement “I will correct thee in measure.”~ Jeremiah 30:11 ~ To be left uncorrected would be a fatal sign: it would prove that the Lord had said, “He is given unto idols, let him alone.” God grant that such may never be our portion! Uninterrupted prosperity is a thing to cause fear and trembling. As many as God tenderly… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.19.24

“Babes in Christ.”~ 1 Corinthians 3:1 ~ Are you mourning, believer, because you are so weak in the divine life: because your faith is so little, your love so feeble? Cheer up, for you have cause for gratitude. Remember that in some things you are equal to the greatest and most full-grown Christian. You are as much bought with blood… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.18.24

“Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice.”~ 1 Samuel 15:22 ~ Saul  had been commanded to slay utterly all the Amalekites and their cattle. Instead of doing so, he preserved the king, and suffered his people to take the best of the oxen and of the sheep. When called to account for this, he declared that he did it with… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 10.18.24

Tears, Then Joyful Harvest “They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.”~ Psalm 126:5 ~ Weeping times are suitable for sowing: we do not want the ground to be too dry. Seed steeped in the tears of earnest anxiety will come up all the sooner. The salt of prayerful tears will give the good seed a flavor which will… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.18.24

“Thy paths drop fatness.”~ Psalm 65:11 ~ Many are “the paths of the Lord” which “drop fatness,” but an especial one is the path of prayer. No believer, who is much in the closet, will have need to cry, “My leanness, my leanness; woe unto me.” Starving souls live at a distance from the mercy-seat, and become like the parched… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.17.24

“He shall gather the lambs with His arm.”~ Isaiah 40:11 ~ Our good Shepherd has in His flock a variety of experiences, some are strong in the Lord, and others are weak in faith, but He is impartial in His care for all His sheep, and the weakest lamb is as dear to Him as the most advanced of the… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 10.17.24

Holy Fear “He that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.”~ Proverbs 13:13 ~ Holy awe of God’s Word is at a great discount. Men think themselves wiser than the Word of the Lord and sit in judgment upon it. “So did not I, because of the fear of God.” We accept the inspired Book as infallible and prove our esteem… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.17.24

“And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul.”~ 1 Samuel 27:1 ~ The thought of David’s heart at this time was a false thought, because he certainly had no ground for thinking that God’s anointing him by Samuel was intended to be left as an empty unmeaning act. On no one… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.16.24

“With Thee is the fountain of life.”~ Psalm 36:9 ~ There are times in our spiritual experience when human counsel or sympathy, or religious ordinances, fail to comfort or help us. Why does our gracious God permit this? Perhaps it is because we have been living too much without Him, and He therefore takes away everything upon which we have… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.22.24

“He shall take of Mine, and shall show it unto you.”~ John 16:15 ~ There are times when all the promises and a doctrines of the Bible are of no avail, unless a gracious hand shall apply them to us. We are thirsty, but too faint to crawl to the water-brook. When a soldier is wounded in battle it is… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 10.16.24

  One with Christ Jesus “Because I live, ye shall live also.”~ John 14:19 ~ Jesus has made the life of believers in Him as certain as His own. As sure as the Head lives the members live also. If Jesus has not risen from the dead, then are we dead in our sins; but since He has risen, all… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.16.24

“Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine.”~ John 21:12 ~ In these words the believer is invited to a holy nearness to Jesus. “Come and dine,” implies the same table, the same meat; ay, and sometimes it means to sit side by side, and lean our head upon the Saviour’s bosom. It is being brought into the banqueting-house, where waves… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.15.24

“But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck.”~ Exodus 34:20 ~ Every firstborn creature must be the Lord’s, but since the ass was unclean, it could not be presented in sacrifice. What then? Should it be allowed to go free from the universal law?… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 10.15.24

  Sustained by Feeding “As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.”~ John 6:57 ~ We live by virtue of our union with the Son of God. As God-man Mediator, the Lord Jesus lives by the self-existent Father who has sent Him, and in… (more…)

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