Archive for March, 2006

31 Mar

Spurgeon: Evening

Today’s Evening Devotional, by Charles Spurgeon.
“And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by [...]

31 Mar

Spurgeon: Morning

Today’s Morning Devotional, by Charles Spurgeon.
“With his stripes we are healed.â€? – Isaiah 53:5
Pilate delivered our Lord to the lictors to be scourged. The Roman scourge was a most dreadful instrument of torture. It was made of the sinews of oxen, and sharp bones were inter-twisted every here and there among the sinews; so that [...]

30 Mar

Spurgeon: Evening

Today’s Evening Devotional, by Charles Spurgeon.
“Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.â€? – Lamentations 3:40
The spouse who fondly loves her absent husband longs for his return; a long protracted separation from her lord is a semi-death to her spirit: and so with souls who love the Saviour much, they [...]

30 Mar

Spurgeon: Morning

Today’s Morning Devotional, by Charles Spurgeon.
“He was numbered with the transgressors.â€? – Isaiah 53:12
Why did Jesus suffer himself to be enrolled amongst sinners? This wonderful condescension was justified by many powerful reasons. In such a character he could the better become their advocate. In some trials there is an identification of the counsellor with the [...]

28 Mar

Spurgeon: Evening

Today’s Evening Devotional, by Charles Spurgeon.
“I will accept you with your sweet savour.â€? – Ezekiel 20:41
The merits of our great Redeemer are as sweet savour to the Most High. Whether we speak of the active or passive righteousness of Christ, there is an equal fragrance. There was a sweet savour in his active life by [...]

28 Mar

Spurgeon: Morning

Today’s Morning Devotional, by Charles Spurgeon.
“The love of Christ which passeth knowledge.â€? – Ephesians 3:19
The love of Christ in its sweetness, its fulness, its greatness, its faithfulness, passeth all human comprehension. Where shall language be found which shall describe his matchless, his unparalleled love towards the children of men? It is so vast and boundless [...]

27 Mar

Spurgeon: Evening

Today’s Evening Devotional, by Charles Spurgeon.
“And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master’s table.â€? – Matthew 15:27
This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST. The Master had talked about the children’s bread: “Now,� argued she, “since thou art the Master of [...]

27 Mar

Spurgeon: Morning

Today’s Morning Devotional, by Charles Spurgeon.
“Then all the disciples forsook him and fled.â€? – Matthew 26:56
He never deserted them, but they in cowardly fear of their lives, fled from him in the very beginning of his sufferings. This is but one instructive instance of the frailty of all believers if left to themselves; they are [...]

24 Mar

Spurgeon: Evening

Today’s Evening Devotional, by Charles Spurgeon.
“In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit.â€? – Luke 10:21
The Saviour was “a man of sorrows,� but every thoughtful mind has discovered the fact that down deep in his innermost soul he carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy. Of all the human race, there was never a [...]

24 Mar

Spurgeon: Morning

Today’s Morning Devotional, by Charles Spurgeon.
“He was heard in that he feared.â€? – Hebrews 5:7
Did this fear arise from the infernal suggestion that he was utterly forsaken. There may be sterner trials than this, but surely it is one of the worst to be utterly forsaken? “See,� said Satan, “thou hast a friend nowhere! Thy [...]

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