Evening Devotional

From “Morning and Evening: Daily Readings” – by Charles Spurgeon

Evening, May 11 – “Only be thou strong and very courageous.” Joshua 1:7

Our God’s tender love for his servants makes him concerned for the state of their inward feelings. He desires them to be of good courage. Some esteem it a small thing for a believer to be vexed with doubts and fears, but God thinks not so.  From this text it is plain that our Master …

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Evening, May 10 – “The only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1:14

Believer, you can bear your testimony that Christ is the only begotten of the Father, as well as the first begotten from the dead. You can say, “He is divine to me, if he be human to all the world beside. He has done that for me which none but a God could do. He …

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Evening, May 9 – “Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field … let us see if the vine flourish.” Song of Solomon 7:11,12

The church was about to engage in earnest labour, and desired her Lord’s company in it. She does not say, “I will go,” but “let us go.” It is blessed working when Jesus is at our side! It is the business of God’s people to be trimmers of God’s vines.  Like our first parents, we …

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Evening, May 7 – “Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.” John 5:8

Like many others, the impotent man had been waiting for a wonder to be wrought, and a sign to be given. Wearily did he watch the pool, but no angel came, or came not for him; yet, thinking it to be his only chance, he waited still, and knew not that there was One near …

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Evening, May 6 – “All the days of my appointed time will I wait.” Job 14:14

A little stay on earth will make heaven more heavenly. Nothing makes rest so sweet as toil; nothing renders security so pleasant as exposure to alarms. The bitter quassia cups of earth will give a relish to the new wine which sparkles in the golden bowls of glory.  Our battered armour and scarred countenances will …

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Evening, May 5 – “He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.” Proverbs 16:20

Wisdom is man’s true strength; and, under its guidance, he best accomplishes the ends of his being. Wisely handling the matter of life gives to man the richest enjoyment, and presents the noblest occupation for his powers; hence by it he finds good in the fullest sense.  Without wisdom, man is as the wild ass’s …

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Evening, May 4 – “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible.” 1 Peter 1:23

Peter most earnestly exhorted the scattered saints to love each other “with a pure heart fervently” and he wisely fetched his argument, not from the law, from nature, or from philosophy, but from that high and divine nature which God hath implanted in his people.  Just as some judicious tutor of princes might labour to …

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