Charles Spurgeon Morning and Evening Daily Devotional 16 May 2024

Charles Spurgeon Morning and Evening Daily Devotional 16 May 2024

Morning & Evening: Morning Devo, May 16
Thursday, May 16, 2024

SCRIPTURE: Who giveth us richly all things to enjoy. — 1 Tim 6:17

MORNING THOUGHT: Our Lord Jesus is ever giving and does not for a solitary instant withdraw His hand. As long as there is a vessel of grace not yet full to the brim—the oil shall not be stopped. He is a sun ever-shining; He is manna always falling round the camp; He is a rock in the desert, ever sending out streams of life from His smitten side; the rain of His grace is always dropping; the river of His bounty is ever-flowing, and the well-spring of His love is constantly overflowing.

As the King can never die—so His grace can never fail. Daily we pluck His fruit, and daily His branches bend down to our hand with a fresh store of mercy.

There are seven feast-days in His weeks, and as many as are the days, so many are the banquets in His years. Who has ever returned from His door, unblessed? Who has ever risen from His table unsatisfied; or from His bosom un-imparadised? His mercies are new every morning and fresh every evening.

Who can know the number of His benefits, or recount the list of His bounties? Every sand which drops from the glass of time—is but the tardy follower of a myriad of mercies. The wings of our hours are covered with the silver of His kindness, and with the yellow gold of His affection. The river of time bears from the mountains of eternity—the golden sands of His favor. The countless stars are but as the standard-bearers of a more innumerable multitude of blessings.

Who can count the dust of the benefits which He bestows on Jacob, or tell the number of the fourth part of His mercies towards Israel? How shall my soul extol Him—who daily loads us with benefits, and who crowns us with loving-kindness? O that my praise could be as ceaseless as His bounty! O miserable tongue, how can you be silent? Wake up, I beg you, lest I call you no more my glory but my shame. “Awake, psaltery and harp—I myself will awake right early!”

READ EVENING THOUGHT BELOW:

SCRIPTURE: And he said, Thus saith the Lord, Make this valley full of ditches. For thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye and your cattle, and your beasts. — 2 Kgs 3:16-17

EVENING THOUGHT: The armies of the three kings were famishing for lack of water—God was about to send it, and in these words the prophet announced the coming blessing. Here was a case of human helplessness—not a drop of water could all the valiant men procure from the skies or find in the wells of earth. Thus often the people of the Lord are at their wits’ end; they see the vanity of the creature, and learn experimentally where their help is to be found.

Still the people were to make a believing preparation for the divine blessing; they were to dig the ditches in which the precious liquid would be held. The church must by her varied agencies, efforts, and prayers, make herself ready to be blessed; she must make the ditches, and the Lord will fill them. This must be done in faith, in the full assurance that the blessing is about to descend.

By-and-by there was a singular bestowal of the needed blessing. Not as in Elijah’s case, did the shower pour from the clouds but in a silent and mysterious manner the ditches were filled. The Lord has His own sovereign modes of action—He is not tied to any manner and time, as we are but does as He pleases among men. It is ours thankfully to receive from Him, and not to dictate to Him.

We must also notice the remarkable abundance of the supply—there was enough for the need of all. And so it is in the gospel blessing; all the needs of the congregation and of the entire church shall be met by the divine power in answer to prayer; and above all this, victory shall be speedily given to the armies of the Lord. What am I doing for Jesus? What trenches am I digging? O Lord, make me ready to receive the blessing which You are so willing to bestow.

Morning and Evening’ is the classic daily devotional from Charles H. Spurgeon.

Charles Spurgeon Morning and Evening Daily Devotional 16 May 2024 written by Charles H. Spurgeon