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"Ye that love the Lord hate evil." Psalm 97:10 DR CHARLES SPURGEONS DEVOTIONS. Thou hast good reason to "hate evil," for only consider what harm it has already wrought thee. Oh, what a world of mischief sin has brought into thy heart! Sin blinded thee so that thou couldst not see the beauty...

"Behold, I am vile." Job 40:4 One cheering word, poor lost sinner, for thee! You think you must not come to God because you are vile. Now, there is not a saint living on earth but has been made to feel that he is vile. If Job, and Isaiah, and Paul were all obliged to say "I am vile," oh, poor...

DR CHARLES SPURGEONS DEVOTIONS. "The Lord shut him in." Genesis 7:16 Noah was shut in away from all the world by the hand of divine love. The door of electing purpose interposes between us and the world which lieth in the wicked one. We are not of the world even as our Lord Jesus was not of...

DR CHARLES SPURGEONS DEVOTIONS. Morning "The kindness and love of God our Saviour." Titus 3:4 How sweet it is to behold the Saviour communing with his own beloved people! There can be nothing more delightful than, by the Divine Spirit, to be led into this fertile field of delight. Let the mind...

DR CHARLES SPURGEONS DEVOTIONS "These were potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work." 1 Chronicles 4:23 Potters were not the very highest grade of workers, but "the king" needed potters, and therefore they were in royal service, although...

Morning "For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh." Galatians 5:17 In every believer's heart there is a constant struggle between the old nature and the new. The old nature is very active, and loses no opportunity of plying all the weapons of its deadly armoury...

"The evening and the morning were the first day." Genesis 1:5 DR CHARLES SPURGEONS DEVOTIONS. Was it so even in the beginning? Did light and darkness divide the realm of time in the first day? Then little wonder is it if I have also changes in my circumstances from the sunshine of prosperity...

DR CHARLES SPURGEONS DEVOTIONS. "The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron." 2 Samuel 15:23 David passed that gloomy brook when flying with his mourning company from his traitor son. The man after God's own heart was not exempt from trouble, nay, his life was full of it. He was both...

Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines." Song of Solomon 2:15 A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins do mischief to the tender heart. These little sins burrow in the soul, and make it so full of...

Morning "Thou hatest wickedness." DR CHSRLES SPURGEONS DEVOTIONS. Psalm 45:7 "Be ye angry, and sin not." There can hardly be goodness in a man if he be not angry at sin; he who loves truth must hate every false way. How our Lord Jesus hated it when the temptation came! Thrice it assailed him...

"Whom he justified, them he also glorified." DR CHARLIES SPURGEONS DEVOTIONS. Romans 8:30 Here is a precious truth for thee, believer. Thou mayest be poor, or in suffering, or unknown, but for thine encouragement take a review of thy "calling" and the consequences that flow from it, and...

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"So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king's table; and was lame on both his feet." DR CHARLES SPURGEONS DEVOTIONS. 2 Samuel 9:13 Mephibosheth was no great ornament to a royal table, yet he had a continual place at David's board, because the king could see in...

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Not possible for a man to have too many guns or knives. Gun control, or controlling the weapons goes back to Biblical times. The philistines controlled the Israelites for 45 years by not allowing them to have bronze or iron or some other metal for fear they would form weapons to fight them.

"Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee." Psalm 55:22 Care, even though exercised upon legitimate objects, if carried to excess, has in it the nature of sin. The precept to avoid anxious care is earnestly inculcated by our Saviour, again and again; it is reiterated by the...

DR SPURGEONS DEVOTIONS. "Forsake me not, O Lord." Psalm 38:21 Frequently we pray that God would not forsake us in the hour of trial and temptation, but we too much forget that we have need to use this prayer at all times. There is no moment of our life, however holy, in which we can do without...

"Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer." DR CHARLES SPURGEONS DEVOTIONS Psalm 66:20 In looking back upon the character of our prayers, if we do it honestly, we shall be filled with wonder that God has ever answered them. There may be some who think their prayers worthy of...

"The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me." DR SPURGEONS DEVOTIONS Psalm 138:8 Most manifestly the confidence which the Psalmist here expressed was a divine confidence. He did not say, "I have grace enough to perfect that which concerneth me--my faith is so steady that it will not...

DR CHARLES SPURGEONS DEVOTIONS. "He led them forth by the right way." Psalm 107:7 Changeful experience often leads the anxious believer to inquire "Why is it thus with me?" I looked for light, but lo, darkness came; for peace, but behold, trouble. I said in my heart, my mountain standeth firm...