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</title><link>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/</link><description>A daily devotional from "Morning and Evening," written by C. H. Spurgeon and updated and revised by Alistair Begg.
</description><atom:link href="https://www.truthforlife.org/subscribe/daily/feedburner/" rel="self"/><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 06:00:00 -0456</lastBuildDate><item><title>God’s Hand in Your Life
</title><link>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/7/9/2025/</link><description><p></p>
<strong>
<a href="https://www.truthforlife.org/bible/Psalm%20103:2/">
Psalm 103:2
</a>
</strong>
<br/><img src="https://www.truthforlife.org/static/uploads/devotionals/dd_07-09a-.jpg" style="float: left"/><p>It is a delightful and profitable occupation to mark the hand of God in the lives of ancient saints and to observe His goodness in delivering them, His mercy in pardoning them, and His faithfulness in keeping His covenant with them. But would it not be even more interesting and profitable for us to observe the hand of God in our own lives? Should we not look upon our own history as being at least as full of God, as full of His goodness and of His truth, as much a proof of His faithfulness and veracity as the lives of any of the saints who have gone before?</p>
<p>We do our Lord an injustice when we suppose that He performed all His mighty acts and showed Himself strong for those in the early time but does not perform wonders or lay bare His arm for the saints who are now upon the earth. Let us review our own lives. Surely in these we may discover some happy incidents, refreshing to ourselves and glorifying to our God. Have you had no <i>deliverances</i>? Have you passed through no rivers, supported by the divine presence? Have you walked through no fires unharmed? Have you had no <i>manifestations</i>? Have you had no choice <i>favors</i>? The God who gave Solomon the desire of his heart, has He never listened to you and answered your requests? That God of lavish bounty of whom David sang, “who satisfies you with good,”<sup>1</sup> has He never filled <i>you</i> up to overflowing? Have you never been made to lie down in green pastures? Have you never been led by the still waters?</p>
<p>Surely the goodness of God has been the same to us as to the saints of old. Let us, then, weave His mercies into a song. Let us take the pure gold of thankfulness and the jewels of praise and make them into another crown for the head of Jesus. Let our souls produce music as sweet and as exhilarating as came from David’s harp while we praise the Lord whose mercy endures forever.</p>
<p><sup>1) </sup>Psalm 103:5</p>
<p class="devo_copyright">
Devotional material is taken from “Morning and Evening,” written by
C. H. Spurgeon, revised and updated by Alistair Begg. Copyright (c)
2003, Good News Publishers and used by Truth For Life with written
permission. Today’s Bible Reading material is taken from McCheyne
Bible reading plan and used by Truth For Life with permission.
Scripture quotations are taken from Holy Bible: English Standard
Version, copyright (c) 2001, Good News Publishers.
</p>
</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 06:00:00 -0456</pubDate><guid>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/7/9/2025/</guid></item><item><title>The Secret Strength of Faith
</title><link>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/7/8/2025/</link><description><p></p>
<strong>
<a href="https://www.truthforlife.org/bible/Judges%2016:6/">
Judges 16:6
</a>
</strong>
<br/><img src="https://www.truthforlife.org/static/uploads/devotionals/dd_07-08a-.jpg" style="float: left"/><p>Where does the secret strength of faith lie? It lies in the food it feeds on; for faith studies what the promise is-an emanation of divine grace, an overflowing of the great heart of God. And faith says, “My God could not have given this promise except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain His Word will be fulfilled.” Then faith thinks, “<i>Who gave this promise</i>?” It considers not so much its greatness as, “Who is the author of it?” She remembers that it is God, who cannot lie-God omnipotent, God immutable-and therefore concludes that the promise must be fulfilled; and onward she proceeds in this firm conviction. She remembers <i>why the promise was given—</i>namely, for God’s glory—and she feels perfectly sure that God’s glory is safe, that He will never stain His own insignia, nor spoil the sparkle of His own crown; and therefore the promise must and will stand.</p>
<p>Then faith also considers the <i>amazing work of Christ</i> as being a clear proof of the Father’s intention to fulfill His word. “He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?”<sup>1</sup> Moreover, faith looks back upon <i>the past</i>, for her battles have strengthened her, and her victories have given her courage. She remembers that God has never failed her, that He never once failed any of His children. She recalls times of great peril when deliverance came, hours of awful need when as her day her strength was found, and she cries, “No, I never will be led to think that He can change and leave His servant now. Thus far the Lord has helped me, and He will help me still.”</p>
<p>Thus faith views each promise in its connection with the promise-giver and, because she does so, can with assurance say, “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life!”<sup>2</sup></p>
<p><sup>1) </sup>Romans 8:32<br><sup>2) </sup>Psalm 23:6</br></p>
<p class="devo_copyright">
Devotional material is taken from “Morning and Evening,” written by
C. H. Spurgeon, revised and updated by Alistair Begg. Copyright (c)
2003, Good News Publishers and used by Truth For Life with written
permission. Today’s Bible Reading material is taken from McCheyne
Bible reading plan and used by Truth For Life with permission.
Scripture quotations are taken from Holy Bible: English Standard
Version, copyright (c) 2001, Good News Publishers.
</p>
</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 06:00:00 -0456</pubDate><guid>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/7/8/2025/</guid></item><item><title>Remember Your Pastor
</title><link>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/7/7/2025/</link><description><p></p>
<strong>
<a href="https://www.truthforlife.org/bible/1%20Thessalonians%205:25/">
1 Thessalonians 5:25
</a>
</strong>
<br/><img src="https://www.truthforlife.org/static/uploads/devotionals/dd_07-07a-.jpg" style="float: left"/><p>This one morning in the year we reserved to remind each reader of the importance of praying for ministers, and we earnestly implore every Christian household to heed this request first uttered by Paul and now repeated by us.</p>
<p>Brothers, our work is solemnly momentous, involving good or ill to thousands; we deal with souls for God on eternal business, and our word is either a savor of life unto life or of death unto death. A very heavy responsibility rests upon us, and it will be no small mercy if at the last we be found clear of the blood of all men. As officers in Christ’s army, we are the special target of the hostility of men and devils; they watch for our faltering and work to trip us at the heels.</p>
<p>Our sacred calling involves us in temptations from which you are exempt; above all it too often draws us away from our personal enjoyment of truth into a ministerial and official consideration of it. We meet with many difficult cases, and our wits are at a quandary; we observe very sad backslidings, and our hearts are wounded; we see millions perishing, and our spirits sink. We wish to encourage you by our preaching; we desire to be a blessing to your children; we long to be useful both to saints and sinners.</p>
<p>Therefore, dear friends, intercede for us with our God. We are miserable men if we miss the help of your prayers, but happy are we if we live in your supplications. You do not look to us but to our Master for spiritual blessings, and yet how many times has He given those blessings through His ministers; ask then, again and again, that we may be the earthen vessels into which the Lord may put the treasure of the Gospel. We, the whole company of missionaries, ministers, and students, do in the name of Jesus beseech you: “Brothers, pray for us.”</p>
<p class="devo_copyright">
Devotional material is taken from “Morning and Evening,” written by
C. H. Spurgeon, revised and updated by Alistair Begg. Copyright (c)
2003, Good News Publishers and used by Truth For Life with written
permission. Today’s Bible Reading material is taken from McCheyne
Bible reading plan and used by Truth For Life with permission.
Scripture quotations are taken from Holy Bible: English Standard
Version, copyright (c) 2001, Good News Publishers.
</p>
</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 06:00:00 -0456</pubDate><guid>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/7/7/2025/</guid></item><item><title>Protecting His Own
</title><link>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/7/6/2025/</link><description><p></p>
<strong>
<a href="https://www.truthforlife.org/bible/Proverbs%201:33/">
Proverbs 1:33
</a>
</strong>
<br/><img src="https://www.truthforlife.org/static/uploads/devotionals/dd_07-06a-.jpg" style="float: left"/><p>Divine love is clearly observable when it shines in the face of judgments. Fair is that single star that smiles through the gaps in the thunderclouds; bright is the oasis that blooms in the wilderness of sand; so fair and so bright is love in the midst of wrath. When the Israelites provoked the Most High by their continued idolatry, He punished them by withholding both dew and rain, so that their land was visited by a sore famine; but while He did this, He took care that His own chosen ones should be secure. If all other brooks are dry, yet shall there be one reserved for Elijah; and when that fails, God shall still preserve for him a place of sustenance. Not only so, the Lord also had a remnant according to the election of grace, who were hidden by fifties in a cave; and though the whole land was subject to famine, yet these fifties in the cave were fed, and fed from Ahab’s table too by His faithful, God-fearing steward, Obadiah.<sup>1</sup></p>
<p>Let us from this draw the inference that come what may, God’s people are safe. Let convulsions shake the solid earth, let the skies themselves be torn apart, yet amid the wreck of worlds the believer shall be as secure as in the calmest hour of rest. If God cannot save His people <i>under</i> heaven, He will save them in heaven. If the world becomes too hot to hold them, then heaven shall be the place of their reception and their safety. Be confident then, when you hear of wars and rumors of wars. Let no agitation distress you; don’t be unsettled by fear of evil. Whatever happens on the earth, the believer is sheltered beneath the broad wings of Jehovah and shall be secure. Take your stand upon His promise; rest in His faithfulness, and boldly face the darkest future, for there is nothing in it harmful for you. Your sole concern should be to display to the world the blessedness of taking heed to the voice of wisdom.</p>
<p><sup>1) </sup>1 Kings 18:1-16</p>
<p class="devo_copyright">
Devotional material is taken from “Morning and Evening,” written by
C. H. Spurgeon, revised and updated by Alistair Begg. Copyright (c)
2003, Good News Publishers and used by Truth For Life with written
permission. Today’s Bible Reading material is taken from McCheyne
Bible reading plan and used by Truth For Life with permission.
Scripture quotations are taken from Holy Bible: English Standard
Version, copyright (c) 2001, Good News Publishers.
</p>
</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2025 06:00:00 -0456</pubDate><guid>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/7/6/2025/</guid></item><item><title>Called to Be Saints
</title><link>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/7/5/2025/</link><description><p></p>
<strong>
<a href="https://www.truthforlife.org/bible/Romans%201:7/">
Romans 1:7
</a>
</strong>
<br/><img src="https://www.truthforlife.org/static/uploads/devotionals/dd_07-05a-.jpg" style="float: left"/><p>We are very apt to regard the apostolic saints as if they were “saints” in a more special manner than the other children of God. All are “saints” whom God has called by His grace and sanctified by His Spirit; but we are apt to look upon the <i>apostles</i> as extraordinary beings, scarcely subject to the same weaknesses and temptations as ourselves.</p>
<p>Yet in doing so we forget this truth, that the nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart; and the more his Master honors him in His service, the more the evil of the flesh vexes and teases him day by day. The fact is, if we had seen the apostle Paul, we would have thought him remarkably like the rest of the chosen family: And if we had talked with him, we would have said, “We find that his experience and ours are much the same. He is more faithful, more holy, and more deeply taught than we are, but he has the selfsame trials to endure. Actually, in some respects he is more sorely tried than ourselves.”</p>
<p>Do not, then, look upon the ancient saints as being exempt either from infirmities or sins; and do not regard them with that mystic reverence that will almost make us idolaters. Their holiness is attainable even by us. We are “called to be saints” by that same voice that constrained them to their high vocation. It is a Christian’s duty to force his way into the inner circle of saintship; and if these saints were superior to us in their attainments, as they certainly were, let us follow them; let us emulate their passion and holiness. We have the same light that they had, the same grace is accessible to us, and why should we rest satisfied until we have equaled them in heavenly character? They lived <i>with</i> Jesus, they lived <i>for</i> Jesus, therefore they grew <i>like</i> Jesus. Let us live by the same Spirit as they did, “looking to Jesus,”<sup>1</sup> and our saintship will soon be apparent.</p>
<p><sup>1) </sup>Hebrews 12:2</p>
<p class="devo_copyright">
Devotional material is taken from “Morning and Evening,” written by
C. H. Spurgeon, revised and updated by Alistair Begg. Copyright (c)
2003, Good News Publishers and used by Truth For Life with written
permission. Today’s Bible Reading material is taken from McCheyne
Bible reading plan and used by Truth For Life with permission.
Scripture quotations are taken from Holy Bible: English Standard
Version, copyright (c) 2001, Good News Publishers.
</p>
</description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 06:00:00 -0456</pubDate><guid>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/7/5/2025/</guid></item><item><title>The Tool of Sanctification
</title><link>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/7/4/2025/</link><description><p></p>
<strong>
<a href="https://www.truthforlife.org/bible/John%2017:17/">
John 17:17
</a>
</strong>
<br/><img src="https://www.truthforlife.org/static/uploads/devotionals/dd_07-04a-.jpg" style="float: left"/><p>Sanctification begins in regeneration. The Spirit of God implants in man that new living principle by which he becomes “a new creation”<sup>1</sup> in Christ Jesus. This work, which begins in the new birth, is carried on in two ways-mortification, whereby the lusts of the flesh are subdued and kept under, and vivification, by which the life that God has put within us is made to be a well of water springing up unto everlasting life.</p>
<p>This is carried on every day in what is called <i>perseverance</i>, by which the Christian is preserved and continued in a gracious state and is made to abound in good works unto the praise and glory of God; and it culminates or comes to perfection in glory, when the soul, being thoroughly purged, is caught up to dwell with holy beings at the right hand of the Majesty on high.</p>
<p>But while the Spirit of God is thus the author of sanctification, yet there is a visible agency employed that must not be forgotten. “Sanctify them,” said Jesus, “in the <i>truth</i>; your word is truth.” The passages of Scripture that prove that the instrument of our sanctification is the Word of God are numerous. The Spirit of God brings to our minds the precepts and doctrines of truth and applies them with power. These are heard in the ear, and being received in the heart, they work in us to will and to do God’s good pleasure.</p>
<p>The truth is the sanctifier, and if we do not hear or read the truth, we shall not grow in sanctification. We only progress in sound living as we progress in sound understanding. “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”<sup>2</sup> Do not say of any error, “It is a mere matter of opinion.” No man indulges an error of judgment without sooner or later tolerating an error in practice. Hold fast the truth, for by doing so you shall be sanctified by the Spirit of God.</p>
<p><sup>1) </sup>2 Corinthians 5:17<br><sup>2) </sup>Psalm 119:105</br></p>
<p class="devo_copyright">
Devotional material is taken from “Morning and Evening,” written by
C. H. Spurgeon, revised and updated by Alistair Begg. Copyright (c)
2003, Good News Publishers and used by Truth For Life with written
permission. Today’s Bible Reading material is taken from McCheyne
Bible reading plan and used by Truth For Life with permission.
Scripture quotations are taken from Holy Bible: English Standard
Version, copyright (c) 2001, Good News Publishers.
</p>
</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 06:00:00 -0456</pubDate><guid>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/7/4/2025/</guid></item><item><title>A Living Nightmare
</title><link>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/7/3/2025/</link><description><p></p>
<strong>
<a href="https://www.truthforlife.org/bible/Genesis%2041:4/">
Genesis 41:4
</a>
</strong>
<br/><img src="https://www.truthforlife.org/static/uploads/devotionals/dd_07-03a-.jpg" style="float: left"/><p>Pharaoh’s dream has too often been my waking experience. My days of laziness have ruinously destroyed all that I had achieved in times of zealous endeavor; my seasons of coldness have frozen all the genial glow of my periods of fervency and enthusiasm; and my fits of worldliness have thrown me back from my advances in the divine life. I had need to beware of lean prayers, lean praises, lean duties, and lean experiences, for these will eat up the fat of my comfort and peace.</p>
<p>If I neglect prayer for never so short a time, I lose all the spirituality to which I had attained; if I draw no fresh supplies from heaven, the old corn in my granary is soon consumed by the famine that rages in my soul. When the caterpillars of indifference, the worms of worldliness, and the snares of self-indulgence lay my heart completely desolate and make my soul languish, all my former fruitfulness and growth in grace avails me nothing whatever.</p>
<p>How anxious should I be to have no lean-fleshed days, no ill-favored hours! If every day I journeyed toward the goal of my desires I would soon reach it, but backsliding leaves me still far from the prize of my high calling and robs me of the advances that I had so strenuously made.</p>
<p>The only way in which all my days can be like the fat cows is to feed them in the right meadow, to spend them with the Lord, in His service, in His company, in His fear, and in His way. Why should not every year be richer than the past, in love and usefulness and joy? I am nearer the celestial hills; I have had more experience of my Lord and should be more like Him.</p>
<p>O Lord, keep far from me the curse of leanness of soul; let me not have to bemoan such leanness, but may I be well-fed and nourished in Your house, that I may praise Your name.</p>
<p class="devo_copyright">
Devotional material is taken from “Morning and Evening,” written by
C. H. Spurgeon, revised and updated by Alistair Begg. Copyright (c)
2003, Good News Publishers and used by Truth For Life with written
permission. Today’s Bible Reading material is taken from McCheyne
Bible reading plan and used by Truth For Life with permission.
Scripture quotations are taken from Holy Bible: English Standard
Version, copyright (c) 2001, Good News Publishers.
</p>
</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 06:00:00 -0456</pubDate><guid>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/7/3/2025/</guid></item><item><title>Fear Not
</title><link>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/7/2/2025/</link><description><p></p>
<strong>
<a href="https://www.truthforlife.org/bible/Psalm%2033:21/">
Psalm 33:21
</a>
</strong>
<br/><img src="https://www.truthforlife.org/static/uploads/devotionals/dd_07-02a-.jpg" style="float: left"/><p>Blessed is the fact that Christians can rejoice even in the deepest distress; although trouble may surround them, they still sing; and like many birds, they sing best in their cages. The waves may roll over them, but their souls soon rise to the surface and see the light of God’s countenance; they have a buoyancy about them that keeps their head always above the water and helps them to sing amid the tempest, “God is with me still.”</p>
<p>To whom shall the glory be given? Oh, to Jesus-it is all by Jesus. Trouble does not necessarily bring consolation with it to the believer, but the presence of the Son of God with him in the fiery furnace fills his heart with joy. He is sick and suffering, but Jesus visits him and makes his bed for him. He is dying, and the cold, chilly waters of Jordan are gathering about him up to the neck, but Jesus puts His arms around him and cries, “Fear not, beloved; to die is to be blessed; the waters of death have their fountainhead in heaven; they are not bitter-they are sweet as honey, for they flow from the throne of God.”</p>
<p>As the departing saint wades through the stream, and the billows gather around him, and heart and flesh fail him, the same voice sounds in his ears: “Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God.”<sup>1</sup> As he nears the borders of the infinite unknown and is almost frightened to enter the realm of shades, Jesus says, “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.”<sup>2</sup> Thus strengthened and consoled, the believer is not afraid to die; no, he is even willing to depart, for since he has seen Jesus as the morning star, he longs to gaze upon Him as the sun in his strength. Truly, the presence of Jesus is all the heaven we desire. He is at once</p>
<blockquote>
<p><i>The glory of our brightest days;<br>The comfort of our nights.</br></i></p>
</blockquote>
<p><sup>1) </sup>Isaiah 41:10<br/><sup>2) </sup>Luke 12:32</p>
<p class="devo_copyright">
Devotional material is taken from “Morning and Evening,” written by
C. H. Spurgeon, revised and updated by Alistair Begg. Copyright (c)
2003, Good News Publishers and used by Truth For Life with written
permission. Today’s Bible Reading material is taken from McCheyne
Bible reading plan and used by Truth For Life with permission.
Scripture quotations are taken from Holy Bible: English Standard
Version, copyright (c) 2001, Good News Publishers.
</p>
</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 06:00:00 -0456</pubDate><guid>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/7/2/2025/</guid></item><item><title>An Abiding Stream
</title><link>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/7/1/2025/</link><description><p></p>
<strong>
<a href="https://www.truthforlife.org/bible/Zechariah%2014:8/">
Zechariah 14:8
</a>
</strong>
<br/><img src="https://www.truthforlife.org/static/uploads/devotionals/dd_07-01a-.jpg" style="float: left"/><p>The streams of living water that flow from Jerusalem are not dried up by the parching heats of sultry midsummer any more than they are frozen by the cold winds of blustering winter.</p>
<p>Rejoice, O my soul, that you are spared to testify of the faithfulness of the Lord. The seasons change, and you change, but your Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad, and as full as ever. The heats of business cares and scorching trials make me need the cooling influences of the river of His grace; I may go at once and drink to the full from the inexhaustible fountain, for in summer and in winter it pours forth its flood. The upper springs are never scanty, and blessed be the name of the Lord, the lower springs cannot fail either.</p>
<p>Elijah found Cherith dried up, but Jehovah was still the same God of providence. Job said his brethren were like deceitful brooks, but he found his God an overflowing river of consolation. The Nile is the great confidence of Egypt, but its floods are variable; our Lord is evermore the same. By turning the course of the Euphrates, Cyrus took the city of Babylon; but no power, human or infernal, can divert the current of divine grace.</p>
<p>The tracks of ancient rivers have been found all dry and desolate, but the streams that take their rise on the mountains of divine sovereignty and infinite love shall ever be full to the brim. Generations melt away, but the course of grace is unaltered. The river of God may sing with greater truth than the brook in the poem—</p>
<blockquote>
<p><i>Men may come, and men may go,<br>But I go on forever</br></i>.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>How happy you are, my soul, to be led beside such still waters! Never wander to other streams, lest you hear the Lord’s rebuke, “What do you gain by going to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile?”<sup>1</sup></p>
<p><sup>1) </sup>Jeremiah 2:18</p>
<p class="devo_copyright">
Devotional material is taken from “Morning and Evening,” written by
C. H. Spurgeon, revised and updated by Alistair Begg. Copyright (c)
2003, Good News Publishers and used by Truth For Life with written
permission. Today’s Bible Reading material is taken from McCheyne
Bible reading plan and used by Truth For Life with permission.
Scripture quotations are taken from Holy Bible: English Standard
Version, copyright (c) 2001, Good News Publishers.
</p>
</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 06:00:00 -0456</pubDate><guid>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/7/1/2025/</guid></item><item><title>Christ’s Generosity
</title><link>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/6/30/2025/</link><description><p></p>
<strong>
<a href="https://www.truthforlife.org/bible/John%2017:22/">
John 17:22
</a>
</strong>
<br/><img src="https://www.truthforlife.org/static/uploads/devotionals/dd_06-30a-.jpg" style="float: left"/><p>Behold the superlative generosity of the Lord Jesus, for He has given us His all. Although a tithe of His possessions would have made a universe of angels, rich beyond all thought, yet He was not content until He had given us all that He had. It would have been surprising grace if He had allowed us to eat the crumbs of His abundance beneath the table of His mercy; but He will do nothing by half measures. He makes us sit with Him and share the feast.</p>
<p>If He had given us some small donation from His royal treasure, we would have had cause to love Him eternally; but in fact He wants His bride to be as rich as Himself, and He will not have a glory or a grace in which she will not share. He has not been content with less than making us joint-heirs with Himself, so that we might have equal possessions. He has emptied all His riches into the members of the church and has shared everything with His redeemed. There is not one room in His house the key of which He will keep from His people. He gives them complete freedom to take all that He has to enjoy as their own; He loves to see them enjoy His treasure and take as much as they can possibly carry.</p>
<p>The limitless fullness of His all-sufficiency is as free to the believer as the air he breathes. Christ has put the cup of His love and grace to the believer’s lip and invites him to drink of it forever; if he could empty it, he is welcome to do so, but as he cannot exhaust it, he is invited to drink abundantly, for it is all his own. What truer proof of fellowship can heaven or earth provide?</p>
<blockquote>
<p><i>When I stand before the throne<br> Dressed in beauty not my own;<br/> When I see Thee as Thou art,<br/> Love Thee with unsinning heart;<br/> Then, Lord, shall I fully know—<br/> Not till then—how much I owe. <br/> </br></i></p>
</blockquote>
<p class="devo_copyright">
Devotional material is taken from “Morning and Evening,” written by
C. H. Spurgeon, revised and updated by Alistair Begg. Copyright (c)
2003, Good News Publishers and used by Truth For Life with written
permission. Today’s Bible Reading material is taken from McCheyne
Bible reading plan and used by Truth For Life with permission.
Scripture quotations are taken from Holy Bible: English Standard
Version, copyright (c) 2001, Good News Publishers.
</p>
</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 06:00:00 -0456</pubDate><guid>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/6/30/2025/</guid></item><item><title>Asleep in Jesus
</title><link>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/6/29/2025/</link><description><p></p>
<strong>
<a href="https://www.truthforlife.org/bible/1%20Thessalonians%204:14/">
1 Thessalonians 4:14
</a>
</strong>
<br/><img src="https://www.truthforlife.org/static/uploads/devotionals/dd_06-29a-.jpg" style="float: left"/><p>Let us not imagine that <i>the soul</i> sleeps in insensibility. “Today you will be with me in paradise” is the whisper of Christ to every dying saint. They sleep in Jesus, but their souls are before the throne of God, praising Him day and night in His temple, singing hallelujahs to Him who washed them from their sins in His blood. The body sleeps in its lonely bed of earth, beneath the coverlet of grass.</p>
<p>But what is this sleep? The idea connected with sleep is “<i>rest</i>,” and that is the thought that the Spirit of God would convey to us. Sleep makes each night a sabbath for the day. Sleep shuts tight the door of the soul and bids all intruders wait for a while, that the life within may enter its summer garden of ease. The toil-worn believer quietly sleeps, as does the weary child when it slumbers on its mother’s breast.</p>
<p>Happy are they who die in the Lord; they rest from their labors, and their works follow them. Their quiet repose will never be broken until God shall rouse them to give them their full reward. Guarded by angelic watchers, curtained by eternal mysteries, they sleep on, the inheritors of glory, until the fullness of time shall bring the fullness of redemption.</p>
<p>What an awaking will be theirs! They were laid in their last resting place, weary and worn, but they will not rise in that condition. They went to their rest with furrowed brow and wasted features, but they wake up in beauty and glory. The shriveled seed, so devoid of form and beauty, rises from the dust a glorious flower. The winter of the grave gives way to the spring of redemption and the summer of glory. Blessed is death, since through the divine power it removes our working clothes and dresses us with the wedding garment of incorruption. Blessed are those who sleep in Jesus.</p>
<p class="devo_copyright">
Devotional material is taken from “Morning and Evening,” written by
C. H. Spurgeon, revised and updated by Alistair Begg. Copyright (c)
2003, Good News Publishers and used by Truth For Life with written
permission. Today’s Bible Reading material is taken from McCheyne
Bible reading plan and used by Truth For Life with permission.
Scripture quotations are taken from Holy Bible: English Standard
Version, copyright (c) 2001, Good News Publishers.
</p>
</description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 06:00:00 -0456</pubDate><guid>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/6/29/2025/</guid></item><item><title>Looking to Jesus
</title><link>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/6/28/2025/</link><description><p></p>
<strong>
<a href="https://www.truthforlife.org/bible/Hebrews%2012:2/">
Hebrews 12:2
</a>
</strong>
<br/><img src="https://www.truthforlife.org/static/uploads/devotionals/dd_06-28a-.jpg" style="float: left"/><p>It is always the Holy Spirit’s work to turn our eyes away from self to Jesus. But Satan’s work is just the opposite; he is constantly trying to make us look at ourselves instead of Christ. He insinuates, “Your sins are too great for pardon; you have no faith; you do not repent enough; you will never be able to continue to the end; you do not have the joy of His children; you have such a wavering hold on Jesus.” All these are thoughts about self, and we will never find comfort or assurance by looking within.</p>
<p>But the Holy Spirit turns our eyes entirely away from self: He tells us that we are nothing, but that Christ is everything. Remember, therefore, it is not <i>your hold</i> of Christ that saves you—it is Christ; it is not <i>your joy</i> in Christ that saves you—it is Christ; it is not even faith in Christ, although that is the instrument—it is Christ’s blood and merits.</p>
<p>Therefore, do not look so much to your hand with which you are grasping Christ as to Christ; do not look to your hope but to Jesus, the source of your hope; do not look to your faith, but to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of your faith.</p>
<p>We will never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our deeds, or our feelings; it is what <i>Jesus</i> is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul. If we are to overcome Satan and have peace with God, it must be by “looking to Jesus.”</p>
<p>Keep your eye simply on Him; let His death, His sufferings, His merits, His glories, His intercession be fresh upon your mind. When you waken in the morning look to Him; when you lie down at night look to Him. Do not let your hopes or fears come between you and Jesus; follow hard after Him, and He will never fail you.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><i>My hope is built on nothing less<br> Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness:<br/> I dare not trust the sweetest frame,<br/> But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.</br></i></p>
</blockquote>
<p class="devo_copyright">
Devotional material is taken from “Morning and Evening,” written by
C. H. Spurgeon, revised and updated by Alistair Begg. Copyright (c)
2003, Good News Publishers and used by Truth For Life with written
permission. Today’s Bible Reading material is taken from McCheyne
Bible reading plan and used by Truth For Life with permission.
Scripture quotations are taken from Holy Bible: English Standard
Version, copyright (c) 2001, Good News Publishers.
</p>
</description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 06:00:00 -0456</pubDate><guid>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/6/28/2025/</guid></item><item><title>Bargaining like Pharaoh
</title><link>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/6/27/2025/</link><description><p></p>
<strong>
<a href="https://www.truthforlife.org/bible/Exodus%208:28/">
Exodus 8:28
</a>
</strong>
<br/><img src="https://www.truthforlife.org/static/uploads/devotionals/dd_06-27a-.jpg" style="float: left"/><p>This is a crafty word from the lip of the arch-tyrant Pharaoh. If the poor enslaved Israelites must leave Egypt, then he bargains with them that it shall not be very far away—not too far for them to escape the terror of his arms and the observation of his spies. After the same fashion, the world hates the nonconformity of nonconformity or the dissidence of dissent; it would rather we were more charitable and not deal with things too severely. Death to the world and burial with Christ are experiences that worldly minds treat with ridicule, and as a result baptism, which pictures them, is almost universally neglected and even condemned.</p>
<p>Worldly wisdom recommends the path of compromise and talks of “moderation.” According to this carnal policy, purity is admitted to be very desirable, but we are warned against being too precise; truth is of course to be followed, but error is not to be severely denounced. “Yes,” says the world, “be spiritually minded by all means, but do not deny yourself a little friendship with the world, the odd journey to Vanity Fair. What’s the good of denouncing this empty lifestyle when it is so fashionable and everybody does it?” Multitudes of professors succumb to this cunning advice, to their own eternal ruin.</p>
<p>If we are going to really follow the Lord, we must be prepared to walk the narrow path and join Moses who refused to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. We must leave behind the world’s maxims—its pleasure, and its religion too—and go far away to the place where the Lord calls His sanctified ones.</p>
<p>When the town is on fire, our house cannot be too far from the flames. When disease is rampant, it is hard to escape it. The further from a poisonous snake the better, and the further from worldly conformity the better. To all true believers let the trumpet-call be sounded: “Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them.”<sup>1</sup></p>
<p><sup>1) </sup>2 Corinthians 6:17</p>
<p class="devo_copyright">
Devotional material is taken from “Morning and Evening,” written by
C. H. Spurgeon, revised and updated by Alistair Begg. Copyright (c)
2003, Good News Publishers and used by Truth For Life with written
permission. Today’s Bible Reading material is taken from McCheyne
Bible reading plan and used by Truth For Life with permission.
Scripture quotations are taken from Holy Bible: English Standard
Version, copyright (c) 2001, Good News Publishers.
</p>
</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 06:00:00 -0456</pubDate><guid>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/6/27/2025/</guid></item><item><title>Examine Yourself
</title><link>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/6/26/2025/</link><description><p></p>
<strong>
<a href="https://www.truthforlife.org/bible/Isaiah%2014:10/">
Isaiah 14:10
</a>
</strong>
<br/><img src="https://www.truthforlife.org/static/uploads/devotionals/dd_06-26a-.jpg" style="float: left"/><p>What must be the apostate professor’s doom when his naked soul appears before God? How will he bear to hear that voice telling him that he is banished forever from His presence and that he will not be the recipient of mercy?</p>
<p>“Depart from Me, you cursed; you have rejected knowledge, and I reject you.” What will be this wretch’s shame at the last great day when, before the assembled crowds, the apostate shall be unmasked? See the profane, and sinners who never professed faith, lifting themselves up from their beds of fire to point at him. “There he is,” says one; “will he preach the gospel in hell?” “There he is,” says another; “he rebuked me for cursing and was a hypocrite himself!” “Aha!” says another; “here comes a psalm-singing Methodist—one who was always at his meeting; he is the man who boasted of his being sure of everlasting life, and here he is!”</p>
<p>No greater eagerness will ever be seen among satanic tormentors than in that day when devils drag the hypocrite’s soul down to perdition. Bunyan pictures this with massive but awful grandeur of poetry when he speaks of the back way to hell. Seven devils bound the wretch with nine cords and dragged him from the road to heaven, in which he had professed to walk, and thrust him through the back door into hell.</p>
<p>Watch out for that back way to hell, professors! “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith.”<sup>1</sup> Pay attention to your condition, and see whether you are in Christ or not. It is the easiest thing in the world to give high marks when grading your own paper. Be honest and fair. Be gracious to all, but be rigorous with yourself. Remember, if you are not building on the rock, your house will collapse. May the Lord give you sincerity, constancy, and firmness; and in no day, however evil, may you be led to turn aside.</p>
<p><sup>1) </sup>2 Corinthians 13:5</p>
<p class="devo_copyright">
Devotional material is taken from “Morning and Evening,” written by
C. H. Spurgeon, revised and updated by Alistair Begg. Copyright (c)
2003, Good News Publishers and used by Truth For Life with written
permission. Today’s Bible Reading material is taken from McCheyne
Bible reading plan and used by Truth For Life with permission.
Scripture quotations are taken from Holy Bible: English Standard
Version, copyright (c) 2001, Good News Publishers.
</p>
</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:00:00 -0456</pubDate><guid>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/6/26/2025/</guid></item><item><title>Climbing a Mountain
</title><link>https://www.truthforlife.org/devotionals/spurgeon/6/25/2025/</link><description><p></p>
<strong>
<a href="https://www.truthforlife.org/bible/Isaiah%2040:9/">
Isaiah 40:9
</a>
</strong>
<br/><img src="https://www.truthforlife.org/static/uploads/devotionals/dd_06-25a-.jpg" style="float: left"/><p>Our knowledge of Christ is somewhat like climbing one of the mountains in Wales. When you are at the base you see only a little: the mountain itself appears to be only half as high as it really is. Confined in a little valley, you discover scarcely anything but the rippling brooks as they descend into the stream at the foot of the mountain. Climb the first rising knoll, and the valley lengthens and widens beneath your feet. Go higher, and you see the country for four or five miles around, and you are delighted with the widening prospect. Higher still, and the scene enlarges; until at last, when you are on the summit and look east, west, north, and south, you see almost all of England lying before you. There is a forest in some distant county, perhaps two hundred miles away, and here the sea, and there a shining river and the smoking chimneys of a manufacturing town, or the masts of the ships in a busy port. All these things please and delight you, and you say, “I could not have imagined that so much could be seen at this elevation.”</p>
<p>Now, the Christian life is of the same order. When we first believe in Christ, we see only a little of Him. The higher we climb, the more we discover of His beauty. But who has ever gained the summit? Who has known all the heights and depths of the love of Christ that passes knowledge? When Paul had grown old and was sitting gray-haired and shivering in a dungeon in Rome, he was able to say with greater emphasis than we can, “I know whom I have believed,”<sup>1</sup> for each experience had been like the climbing of a hill, each trial had been like ascending another summit, and his death seemed like gaining the top of the mountain, from which he could see the whole panorama of the faithfulness and love of Him to whom he had committed his soul. Get up, dear friend, into a high mountain.</p>
<p><sup>1) </sup>2 Timothy 1:12</p>
<p class="devo_copyright">
Devotional material is taken from “Morning and Evening,” written by
C. H. Spurgeon, revised and updated by Alistair Begg. Copyright (c)
2003, Good News Publishers and used by Truth For Life with written
permission. Today’s Bible Reading material is taken from McCheyne
Bible reading plan and used by Truth For Life with permission.
Scripture quotations are taken from Holy Bible: English Standard
Version, copyright (c) 2001, Good News Publishers.
</p>
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