"And when he thought thereon, he wept."

PETER DENYING JESUS 

"And when he thought thereon, he wept."—Mark 14:72.

IT has been thought by some that as long as Peter lived, 

the fountain of his tears began to flow whenever he remembered his denying his Lord. 

It is not unlikely that it was so, for his sin was very great, and grace in him had afterwards a perfect work. This same experience is common to all the redeemed family according to the degree in which the Spirit of God has removed the natural heart of stone. 

We, like Peter, remember our boastful promise:

 "Though all men shall forsake Thee, yet will not I." 

We eat our own words with the bitter herbs of repentance. 

When we think of what we vowed we would be, and of what we have been, we may weep whole showers of grief. He thought on his denying his Lord. The place in which he did it, the little cause which led him into such heinous sin, the oaths and blasphemies with which he sought to confirm his falsehood, and the dreadful hardness of heart which drove him to do so again and yet again. 

Can we, when we are reminded of our sins, and their exceeding sinfulness, remain stolid and stubborn? Will we not make our house a Bochim, and cry unto the Lord for renewed assurances of pardoning love? May we never take a dry-eyed look at sin, lest ere long we have a tongue parched in the flames of hell. Peter also thought upon his Master's look of love. The Lord followed up the cock's warning voice with an admonitory look of sorrow, pity, and love. That glance was never out of Peter's mind so long as he lived. 

It was far more effectual than ten thousand sermons would have been without the Spirit. 

The penitent apostle would be sure to weep when he recollected the Saviour's full forgiveness, which restored him to his former place. 

To think that we have offended so kind and good a Lord is more 

than sufficient reason for being constant weepers. 

Lord, smite our rocky hearts, and make the waters flow.
 
   Meditation

C. H. Spurgeon

He Routs Our Enemy !!!

He Routs Our Enemy

He hath cast out thine enemy. (Zephaniah 3:15)

What a casting out was that! Satan has lost his throne in our nature even as he lost his seat in heaven. Our Lord Jesus has destroyed the enemy's reigning power over us. 

He may worry us, but he cannot claim us as his own. His bonds are no longer upon our spirits: the Son has made us free, and we are free indeed.

Still is the archenemy the accuser of the brethren; but even from this position our Lord has driven him. Our Advocate silences our accuser. The Lord rebukes our enemies and pleads the causes of our soul, so that no harm comes of all the devil's revilings.

As a tempter, the evil spirit still assails us and insinuates himself into our minds; but thence also is he cast out as to his former preeminence. He wriggles about like a serpent, but he cannot rule like a sovereign. He hurls in blasphemous thoughts when he has opportunity; but what a relief it is when he is told to be quiet and is made to slink off like a whipped cur! Lord, do this for any who are at this time worried and wearied by his barkings. 

Cast out their enemy, and be Thou glorious in their eyes. 

Thou hast cast him down; Lord, cast him out. 

Oh, that Thou wouldst banish him from the world!

"Nevertheless I am continually with Thee."

"Nevertheless

I am continually with Thee."

—Psalm 73:23.

NEVERTHELESS,"—AS if, not with standing all the foolishness and ignorance which David 

had just been confessing to God, not one atom the less was it true and certain that David was saved and accepted, and that the blessing of being constantly in God's presence was undoubtedly his. 

Fully conscious of his own lost estate, and of the deceitfulness and vileness of his nature, yet, by a glorious outburst of faith, he sings "nevertheless I am continually with Thee." 

Believer, you are forced to enter into Asaph's confession and acknowledgment, endeavour in like spirit to say "nevertheless, since I belong to Christ I am continually with God!" By this is meant continually upon His mind, He is always thinking of me for my good. 

Continually before His eye;—the eye of the Lord never sleepeth, but is perpetually watching over my welfare. Continually in His hand, so that none shall be able to pluck me thence. Continually on His heart, worn there as a memorial, even as the high priest bore the names of the twelve tribes upon his heart for ever. Thou always thinkest of me, O God. 

The bowels of Thy love continually yearn towards me. Thou art always making providence work for my good. Thou hast set me as a signet upon thine arm; thy love is strong as death, many waters cannot quench it; neither can the floods drown it. 

Surprising grace! Thou seest me in Christ, and though in myself abhorred, Thou beholdest me as wearing Christ's garments, and washed in His blood, and thus I stand accepted in Thy presence. 

I am thus continually in Thy favour—"continually with Thee." Here is comfort for the tried and afflicted soul; 

vexed with the tempest within—look at the calm without."Nevertheless"—O say it in thy heart, and take the peace it gives. 

"Nevertheless I am continually with Thee."

Meditation

C. H. Spurgeon

Bow Down; Be Lifted Up !!!

Bow Down; Be Lifted Up

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. (1 Peter 5:6)

This is tantamount to a promise:

 if we will bow down, the Lord will lift us up.

 Humility leads to honor; submission is the way to exaltation.

That same hand of God which presses us down is waiting to raise us up when we are prepared to bear the blessing. We stoop to conquer. Many cringe before men and yet miss the patronage they crave; but he that humbles himself under the hand of God shall not fail to be enriched, uplifted, sustained, and comforted by the ever-gracious One.

It is a habit of Jehovah to cast down the proud and lift up the lowly.

Yet there is a time for the Lord's working.

We ought now to humble ourselves,

even at this present moment; and we are bound to keep on doing so whether the

Lord lays His afflicting hand upon us or not.

When the Lord smites, it is our special duty to accept the chastisement with profound submission.

But as for the Lord's exaltation of us, that can only come

 "in due time,"

and God is the best judge of that day and hour.

Do we cry out impatiently for the blessing?

Would we wish for untimely honor?

What are we at?

Surely we are not truly humbled, or we should wait with quiet submission.

 So let us do.

C. H. Spurgeon

"So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before Thee."

"So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before Thee."

—Psalm 73:22.

REMEMBER

 this is the confession of the man after God's own heart; 

and in telling us his inner life, he writes, 

"So foolish was I, and ignorant." 

The word "foolish,"here, means more than it signifies in ordinary language. 

David, in a former verse of the Psalm, writes, 

"I was envious at the foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked," 

which shows that the folly he intended had sin in it. 

He puts himself down as being thus "foolish," and adds a word which is to give intensity to it;

 "so foolish was I." 

How foolish he could not tell. It was a sinful folly, a folly which was not to be excused by frailty, but to be condemned because of its perverseness and wilful ignorance, for he had been envious of the present prosperity of the ungodly, forgetful of the dreadful end awaiting all such. 

And are we better than David that we should call ourselves wise! 

Do we profess that we have attained perfection, or to have been so chastened that the rod has taken all our wilfulness out of us? Ah, this were pride indeed! If David was foolish, how foolish should we be in our own esteem if we could but see ourselves! 

Look back, believer: think of your doubting God when He has been so faithful to you—

think of your foolish outcry of "Not so, my Father,"

 when He crossed His hands in affliction to give you the larger blessing; think of the many times when you have read His providences in the dark, misinterpreted His dispensations, and groaned out, "

All these things are against me," 

when they are all working together for your good! 

Think how often you have chosen sin because of its pleasure, when indeed, that pleasure was a root of bitterness to you! 

Surely if we know our own heart we must plead guilty to the indictment of a sinful folly; and conscious of this "foolishness," we must make David's consequent resolve our own—

"Thou shalt guide me with Thy counsel."

Meditation

C. H. Spurgeon

More than Mere Words !!!

More than Mere Words

I wilt give you the sure mercies of David. (Acts 13:34)

Nothing of man is sure; but everything of God is so. 

Especially are covenant mercies sure mercies, even as David said "an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure."

We are sure that the Lord meant His mercy. 

He did not speak mere words: there is substance and truth in every one of His promises. 

His mercies are mercies indeed. 

Even if a promise seems as if it must drop through by reason of death, yet it never shall, for the good Lord will make good His word.

We are sure that the Lord will bestow promised mercies on all His covenanted ones. 

They shall come in due course to all the chosen of the Lord. They are sure to all the seed, from the least of them unto the greatest of them. 

We are sure that the Lord will continue His mercies to His own people. He does not give and take. 

What He has granted us is the token of much more. 

That which we have not yet received is as sure as that which has already come; therefore, let us wait before the Lord and be still.

 There is no justifiable reason for the least doubt. God's love, and word, and faithfulness are sure. 

Many things are questionable, but of the Lord we sing—

For his mercies shall endure

Ever faithful, ever sure.

C. H. Spurgeon

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"Exceeding great and precious promises."

"Exceeding great and precious promises."

—2 Peter 1:4.

IF you would know experimentally the preciousness of the promises, and enjoy them in your own heart, meditate much upon them. There are promises which are like grapes in the wine-press; if you will tread them the juice will flow. 

Thinking over the hallowed words will often be the prelude to their fulfillment. While you are musing upon them, the boon which you are seeking will insensibly come to you.

 Many a Christian who has thirsted for the promise has found the favour which it ensured gently distilling into his soul even while he has been considering the divine record; and he has rejoiced that ever he was led to lay the promise near his heart.

But besides meditating upon the promises, seek in thy soul to receive them as being the very words of God. Speak to thy soul thus, "If I were dealing with a man's promise, I should carefully consider the ability and the character of the man who had covenanted with me. So with the promise of God; my eye must not be so much fixed upon the greatness of the mercy—that may stagger me; as upon the greatness of the promiser—that will cheer me. 

My soul, it is God, even thy God, God that cannot lie, who speaks to thee. This word of His which thou art now considering is as true as His own existence. He is a God unchangeable. He has not altered the thing which has gone out of His mouth, nor called back one single consolatory sentence.

 Nor doth He lack any power; it is the God that made the heavens and the earth who has spoken thus. Nor can He fail in wisdom as to the time when He will bestow the favours, for He knoweth when it is best to give and when better to withhold. 

Therefore, seeing that it is the word of a God so true, so immutable, so powerful, so wise, 

I will and must believe the promise." If we thus meditate upon the promises, and consider the Promiser, we shall experience their sweetness, and obtain their fulfillment.

The infallible voice of "GOD"

Meditation

C. H. Spurgeon

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THE EYES OF THE LORD !!!

Psalm 34:15 (NIV). 

The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their cry......... 

Thoughts on This Verse... 

We are righteous because of God's grace.

We are remembered because of God's faithfulness. 

We are heard because of God's faithfulness. 

We are blessed because God is God.

WHAT IS YOUR DELIGHT ?

Psalm 1:2 (NIV). 

But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.......
Thoughts on This Verse... 

Delight! 

In things of God do you find delight?
What holy things of the Father in heaven hold your thoughts throughout the day?

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A Change of Name

A Change of Name

And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali; for I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. (Hosea 2:16-17)

That day has come. We view our God no more as Baal, our tyrant lord and mighty master, for we are not under law but under grace. We now think of Jehovah, our God, as our Ishi, our beloved husband, our lord in love, our next-of-kin in bonds of sacred relationship.

We do not serve Him less obediently, but we serve Him for a higher and more endearing reason. We no longer tremble under His lash but rejoice in His love. The slave is changed into a child and the task into a pleasure.

Is it so with thee, dear reader? Has grace cast out slavish fear and implanted filial love? How happy are we in such an experience! Now we call the Lord's day a delight, and worship is never a weariness. Prayer is now a privilege, and praise is a holiday. To obey is heaven; to give to the cause of God is a banquet. Thus have all things become new. Our mouth is filled with singing and our heart with music.

Blessed be our heavenly Ishi forever and ever.

Meditation

C. H. Spurgeon

"Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge"

"Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge, etc."

—2 Peter 1:5, 6.

IF thou wouldest enjoy the eminent grace of the full assurance of faith, under the blessed Spirit's influence, and assistance, do what the Scripture tells thee, "Give diligence." Take care that thy faith is of the right kind—that it is not a mere belief of doctrine, but a simple faith, depending on Christ, and on Christ alone. 

Give diligent heed to thy courage. Plead with God that He would give thee the face of a lion, that thou mayest, with a consciousness of right, go on boldly. Study well the Scriptures, and get knowledge; for a knowledge of doctrine will tend very much to confirm faith. Try to understand God's Word; let it dwell in thy heart richly.

When thou hast done this, 

"Add to thy knowledge temperance." Take heed to thy body: be temperate without. 

Take heed to thy soul: be temperate within. 

Get temperance of lip, life, heart, and thought. Add to this, by God's Holy Spirit, patience; ask Him to give thee that patience which endureth affliction, which, when it is tried, shall come forth as gold. Array yourself with patience, that you may not murmur nor be depressed in your afflictions. 

When that grace is won look to godliness.

 Godliness is something more than religion.

 Make God's glory your object in life; live in His sight; dwell close to Him; seek for fellowship with Him; and thou hast "godliness"; and to that add brotherly love. Have a love to all the saints: and add to that a charity, which openeth its arms to all men, and loves their souls. 

When you are adorned with these jewels, and just in proportion as you practise these heavenly virtues, will you come to know by clearest evidence 

"your calling and election." 

"Give diligence,"

 if you would get assurance, for lukewarmness and doubting very naturally go hand in hand.

Meditation

C. H. Spurgeon

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Nothing to Alarm Us !!!

Nothing to Alarm Us

But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.

 (Daniel 12:13)

We cannot understand all the prophecies,

 but yet we regard them with pleasure and not with dismay. 

There can be nothing in the Father's decree which should justly alarm His child. 

Though the abomination of desolation be set up,

 yet the true believer shall not be defiled; rather shall he be purified, and made white, and tried. 

Though the earth be burned up, no smell of fire shall come upon the chosen. 

Amid the crash of matter and the wreck of worlds, the Lord Jehovah will preserve His own.

Calmly resolute in duty, brave in conflict, patient in suffering, let us go our way, keeping to our road, and neither swerving from it nor loitering in it. 

The end will come; let us go our way till it does.

Rest will be ours, All other things swing to and fro, but our foundation standeth sure. 

God rests in His love, and, therefore, we rest in it. Our peace is, and ever shall be, like a river. 

A lot in the heavenly Canaan is ours, and we shall stand in it, come what may.

 The God of Daniel will give a worthy portion to all who dare to be decided for truth and holiness as Daniel was. 

No den of lions shall deprive us of our sure inheritance.

"He left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out."

"He left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out."

—Genesis 39:12.

IN contending with certain sins 

there remains no mode of victory but by flight. 

The ancient naturalists wrote much of basilisks, whose eyes fascinated their victims and rendered them easy victims; so the mere gaze of wickedness puts us in solemn danger. He who would be safe from acts of evil must haste away from occasions of it. 

A covenant must be made with our eyes not even to look upon the cause of temptation, for such sins only need a spark to begin with and a blaze follows in an instant. Who would wantonly enter the leper's prison and sleep amid its horrible corruption? 

He only who desires to be leprous himself would thus court contagion. If the mariner knew how to avoid a storm, he would do anything rather than run the risk of weathering it. 

Cautious pilots have no desire to try how near the quicksand they can sail, or how often they may touch a rock without springing a leak; their aim is to keep as nearly as possible in the midst of a safe channel.

This day I may be exposed to great peril, let me have the serpent's wisdom to keep out of it and avoid it.

 The wings of a dove may be of more use to me to-day than the jaws of a lion. It is true I may be an apparent loser by declining evil company, but I had better leave my cloak than lose my character; it is not needful that I should be rich, but it is imperative upon me to be pure. 

No ties of friendship, no chains of beauty, no flashings of talent, no shafts of ridicule must turn me from the wise resolve to flee from sin. The devil I am to resist and he will flee from me, but the lusts of the flesh, I must flee, or they will surely overcome me. 

O God of holiness preserve thy Josephs, that Madam Bubble bewitch them not with her vile suggestions.

 May the horrible trinity of the world, the flesh, and the devil, never overcome us!

Meditation

C. H. Spurgeon

" PRAYER THE STRENGTH OF A NATION"

Father God we pray for this nation and we ask you Lord to guide the President and congress to do the best in their abilities, but please God guide each of them to look for the well being of this nation, I know that you love this nation. let us look for your advise and continue to keep YOU as the center, because without you, we are nothing please let us look for your Wisdom and we pray you Lord God Almighty to have THIS NATION AS THE #1 TO PRAISE YOUR MIGHTY NAME.. AMEN...

Psalm 33:12

King James Version (KJV)

 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

Perfect Purity !!!

Perfect Purity

He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment. (Revelation 3:5)

Warrior of the cross, fight on! 

Never rest till thy victory is complete, for thine eternal reward will prove worthy of a life of warfare.

See, here is perfect purity for thee!

 A few in Sardis kept their garments undefiled, and their recompense is to be spotless.

 Perfect holiness is the prize of our high calling; let us not miss it.

See, here is joy! 

Thou shalt wear holiday robes, such as men put on at wedding feasts; thou shalt be clothed with gladness and be made bright with rejoicing. 

Painful struggles shall end in peace of conscience and joy in the Lord.

See, here is victory!

 Thou shalt have thy triumph. Palm, and crown, and white robe shall be thy guerdon; thou shalt be treated as a conqueror and owned as such by the Lord Himself.

See, here is priestly array! Thou shalt stand before the Lord in such raiment as the sons of Aaron wore; thou shalt offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving and draw near unto the Lord with the incense of praise.

Who would not fight for a Lord who gives such large honors to the very least of His faithful servants? Who would not be clothed in a fool's coat for Christ's sake, seeing He will robe us with glory?

C. H. Spurgeon

"Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord."

"Stand still, and see the salvation

of the Lord." 

—Exodus 14:13.

THESE words contain God's command 

to the believer when he is reduced to great straits 

and brought into extraordinary difficulties. 

He cannot retreat; he cannot go forward; he is shut up on the right hand and on the left; what is he now to do? 

The Master's word to him is, 

"Stand still."

 It will be well for him if at such times he listens only to his Master's word, for other and evil advisers come with their suggestions. Despair whispers, "Lie down and die; give it all up." 

But God would have us put on a cheerful courage, and even in our worst times, rejoice in His love and faithfulness. Cowardice says, "Retreat; go back to the worldling's way of action; you cannot play the Christian's part, it is too difficult. Relinquish your principles." 

But, however much Satan may urge this course upon you, you cannot follow it if you are a child of God. 

His divine fiat has bid thee go from strength to strength, and so thou shalt, and neither death nor hell shall turn thee from thy course. What, if for a while thou art called to stand still, yet this is but to renew thy strength for some greater advance in due time. Precipitancy cries, "do something. Stir yourself; to stand still and wait, is sheer idleness." 

We must be doing something at once—we must do it so we think—instead of looking to the Lord, who will not only do something but will do everything. Presumption boasts, 

"If the sea be before you, march into it and expect a miracle." But Faith listens neither to Presumption, nor to Despair, nor to Cowardice, nor to Precipitancy, but it hears God say, 

"Stand still," 

and immovable as a rock it stands. "Stand still";—keep the posture of an upright man, ready for action, expecting further orders, cheerfully and patiently awaiting the directing voice; and it will not be long ere God shall say to you, as distinctly as Moses said it to the people of Israel, "Go forward."

 Meditation

C. H. Spurgeon