Charles Spurgeon Morning and Evening Daily Devotional 29 May 2024

Charles Spurgeon Morning and Evening Daily Devotional 29 May 2024

Morning & Evening: Morning Devo, May 29
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

SCRIPTURE: Thou hatest wickedness. — Ps 45:7

MORNING THOUGHT: “Be angry and sin not.” There can hardly be goodness in a man—if he is 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 in different forms but ever He met it with, “Get behind me, Satan.”

He hated it in others; none the less fervently because He showed His hate oftener in tears of pity—than in words of rebuke; yet what language could be more stern, more Elijah-like, than the words, “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayer.”

He hated wickedness so much that He bled to wound it to the heart; He died that it might die; He was buried that He might bury it in His tomb; and He rose that He might forever trample it beneath His feet. Christ is in the Gospel, and that Gospel is opposed to wickedness in every shape. Wickedness arrays itself in fair garments, and imitates the language of holiness; but the precepts of Jesus, like His scourge of small cords, chase it out of the temple, and will not tolerate it in the Church.

So, too, in the heart where Jesus reigns, what war there is between Christ and Belial! And when our Redeemer shall come to be our Judge, those thundering words, “Depart, you who are cursed!” which are, indeed but a prolongation of His life-teaching concerning sin, shall manifest His abhorrence of iniquity.

As warm as is His love to sinners—so hot is His hatred of sin; as perfect as is His righteousness, so complete shall be the destruction of every form of wickedness. O glorious champion of right, and destroyer of wrong, for this cause has God, even Your God, anointed you with the oil of gladness above Your fellows.

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SCRIPTURE: Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho. — Josh 6:26

Since he was cursed who rebuilt Jericho—much more the man who labors to restore Popery among us. In our fathers’ days the gigantic walls of Popery fell by the power of their faith, the perseverance of their efforts, and the blast of their gospel trumpets; and now there are some who would rebuild that accursed system upon its old foundation. O Lord, be pleased to thwart their unrighteous endeavors, and pull down every stone which they build.

It should be a serious business with us to be thoroughly purged of every error which may have a tendency to foster the spirit of Popery, and when we have made a clean sweep at home we should seek in every way to oppose its all too rapid spread abroad in the church and in the world. This last can be done in secret by fervent prayer, and in public by decided testimony.

We must warn with judicious boldness those who are inclined towards the errors of Rome; we must instruct the young in gospel truth, and tell them of the black doings of Popery in the olden times. We must aid in spreading the light more thoroughly through the land, for priests, like owls, hate daylight.

Are we doing all we can for Jesus and the gospel? If not, our negligence plays into the hands of the priestcraft. What are we doing to spread the Bible, which is the Pope’s bane and poison? Are we casting abroad good, sound gospel writings? Luther once said, “The devil hates goose quills” and, doubtless, he has good reason, for ready writers, by the Holy Spirit’s blessing, have done his kingdom much damage.

If the thousands who will read this short word this night will do all they can to hinder the rebuilding of this accursed Jericho, the Lord’s glory shall speed among the sons of men. Reader, what can you do? What will you do?

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

Charles Spurgeon Morning and Evening Daily Devotional 29 May 2024 written by Charles H. Spurgeon