Turn, O Lord, deliver my life; save me for the sake of your steadfast love. (Psalm 6:4) C. H. Spurgeon comments in The Treasury of David: “Return, O Lord; deliver my soul.” As God’s absence was the main cause of his misery, so his return would be enough to deliver him from his trouble. “Oh save me … More Save me for the sake of your steadfast love!
Give ear to my words, O Lord; consider my groaning. 2 Give attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you do I pray. 3 O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch. C. H. Spurgeon on prayer from The Treasury of … More Spurgeon on prayer: words or no words?
Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer! (Psalm 4:1 ESV) C. H. Spurgeon comments on Psalm 3 in the Treasury of David: This is another instance of David’s common habit of pleading past mercies … More “Pleading past mercies as a ground for present favour” (C.H.Spurgeon)
Psalm 2:11 commands us to “Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.” Is this to mean that our joy in the Lord is on shaky ground? Do we have reason to be afraid? This is not the only place in the Bible where we will see seemingly contrary commands. The Bible describes Christ’s … More Shaky joy?
C. H. Spurgeon, from an 1876 sermon, “The Plumbline” Do not let us judge either ourselves or one another simply by the eye. I have frequently thought that a building was out of the perpendicular when it was not; and I have sometimes thought it perpendicular when it really was not so. The human eye … More The Bible Plumbline
Seek the Lord and live…Amos 5:4 and 6 He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name; Amos 5:8 Charles H … More “An undevout astronomer is mad.”
To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: (Jude 1) John MacArthur says: Spurgeon, a famous English preacher of the 19th century, said, “The general call of the gospel is like the sheet lightning we sometimes see on a summer’s evening–beautiful, grand–but whoever heard of anybody being struck by … More Called?
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. 3 John 4 Charles H. Spurgeon: No parents can say from their hearts, “We have no greater joy than to hear that our children walk in truth,” unless they are themselves walking in truth. No wolf prays for its … More Spurgeon: No wolf prays for its offspring to become a sheep.
Ezekiel 16:59-63 “For thus says the Lord God: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant, 60 yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant. 61 Then you will remember your ways … More Spurgeon: Pardon from God for great sin is a silencer to all our pride.
2 Peter 1:16 For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. Charles H. Spurgeon: There is need in these perilous times to come back to such an elementary truth as this. The truths taught … More Bible: not fables, myths, or merely parables, but they are matters of actual fact.
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