Charles Spurgeon - Morning by Morning: The Bestselling Classic Daily Devotional

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C HARLES H. S PURGEON
(18341892)

C harles Haddon Spurgeon, the son and grandson of Christian ministers, took his familys preaching legacy to the loftiest heights. More than one hundred years after his death, Charles H. Spurgeon is still one of the best-known preachers of all time.

Born June 19, 1834, in Kelvedon, Essex, England, Spurgeon became nineteenth-century Englands counterpart to Americas D. L. Moody. Despite his Christian heritage, Spurgeon was not converted until 1850; after he found Christ, however, he quickly began spreading the good news of the gospel to ever-increasing audiences.

Spurgeon never attended college, but he was well-read in important fields such as Puritan theology and Victorian literature. Just months after his salvation, he began preaching in Teversham, and the next year, accepted a call to pastor the Baptist Chapel at Waterbeach. When that church grew rapidly, Spurgeon was invited to lead Londons New Park Street Baptist Church, and by age twenty-one, he had become Londons most popular preacher.

When Spurgeons preaching began attracting more people than the New Park Street building could hold, the new Metropolitan Tabernacle was built, and crowds of up to ten thousand people came to hear his messages.

Spurgeons sermons were published for a public that hungered for his words, and ultimately, his messages filled more than five dozen volumes. He also published a number of other religious books, including this popular devotional, Morning by Morning.

Spurgeons strict adherence to the Scriptures led him to break fellowship with certain groups that he felt were straying from true Biblical teaching, including his own Baptist Union in 1887. Illness eventually slowed Spurgeon in the last five years of his life. He preached his final sermon on June 7, 1891, and died January 31, 1892. More than sixty thousand people viewed his casket in the Metropolitan Tabernacle.

They did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

J OSHUA 5:12

I sraels weary wanderings were all over, and the promised rest was attained. No more moving tents, fiery serpents, fierce Amalekites, and howling wildernesses: they came to the land which flowed with milk and honey, and they ate the old corn of the land. Perhaps this year, beloved Christian reader, this may be thy case or mine. Joyful is the prospect, and if faith be in active exercise, it will yield unalloyed delight. To be with Jesus in the rest which remaineth for the people of God, is a cheering hope indeed, and to expect this glory so soon is a double bliss. Unbelief shudders at the Jordan which still rolls between us and the goodly land, but let us rest assured that we have already experienced more ills than death at its worst can cause us. Let us banish every fearful thought, and rejoice with exceeding great joy, in the prospect that this year we shall begin to be for ever with the Lord.

A part of the host will this year tarry on earth, to do service for their Lord. If this should fall to our lot, there is no reason why the New Years text should not still be true. We who have believed do enter into rest. The Holy Spirit is the earnest of our inheritance; He gives us glory begun below. In heaven they are secure, and so are we preserved in Christ Jesus; there they triumph over their enemies, and we have victories too. Celestial spirits enjoy communion with their Lord, and this is not denied to us; they rest in His love, and we have perfect peace in him: they hymn His praise, and it is our privilege to bless Him too. We will this year gather celestial fruits on earthly ground, where faith and hope have made the desert like the garden of the Lord. Man did eat angels food of old, and why not now? O for grace to feed on Jesus, and so to eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan this year!

Continue in prayer.

C OLOSSIANS 4:2

I t is interesting to remark how large a portion of Sacred Writ is occupied with the subject of prayer, either in furnishing examples, enforcing precepts, or pronouncing promises. We scarcely open the Bible before we read, Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord; and just as we are about to close the volume, the Amen of an earnest supplication meets our ear. Instances are plentiful. Here we find a wrestling Jacobthere a Daniel who prayed three times a dayand a David who with all his heart called upon his God. On the mountain we see Elias; in the dungeon Paul and Silas. We have multitudes of commands, and a myriad of promises. What does this teach us, but the sacred importance and necessity of prayer? We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives. If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it. So deep are our necessities, that until we are in heaven we must not cease to pray. Dost thou want nothing? Then, I fear thou dost not know thy poverty. Hast thou no mercy to ask of God? Then, may the Lords mercy show thee thy misery! A prayerless soul is a Christless soul. Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus. It is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honour of a Christian. If thou be a child of God, thou wilt seek thy Fathers face, and live in thy Fathers love. Pray that this year thou mayst be holy, humble, zealous, and patient; have closer communion with Christ, and enter oftener into the banqueting-house of His love. Pray that thou mayst be an example and a blessing unto others, and that thou mayst live more to the glory of thy Master. The motto for this year must be, Continue in prayer.