the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening"
Morning
“Help Thou me.”
Psalms 119:81-104
We have upon former occasions read portions of the one hundred and nineteenth Psalm. It is so precious that we will continue to study it, and now read from verse eighty-one to verse one hundred and four.
Psalms 119:82
We have the word in the Bible, but we want it to be applied by the Holy Spirit to our hearts, and we eagerly long to have it so. O Lord, grant our desire.
Psalms 119:83
Like an old wine-skin blackened and shrivelled by smoke, he was worn with pain and anxiety, yet. he did not leave the way of holiness, nor should we think of doing so, come what may.
Psalms 119:84-86
A prayer as sweet as it is short; let us use it: “Help thou me.”
Psalms 119:87 , Psalms 119:88
We are always in need of the Spirit’s quickening influences. Our hearts cannot keep fast hold upon the truth if they become paralysed by worldliness.
Psalms 119:89
Other things are fleeting and changeable, thy promise is fixed and sure; and this is our soul’s stay in time of trouble. What should we do if the promise could fail?
Psalms 119:90 , Psalms 119:91
Nature fulfils thy purposes, thou givest fixity to its laws, and even so shall the plans and promises of grace abide for ever.
Psalms 119:92-95
This was far better than considering his danger and devising plans for escape. Faith continues her meditations undisturbed by the rage of her adversaries.
Psalms 119:96
Perfect happiness in this world, or perfection in the flesh, are dreams, but the law is perfect, and so also is the glorious plan of salvation, therefore do we turn away from all else to rest in the Lord.
Psalms 119:98-100
He became wiser than “his enemies” in subtlety, than “his teachers” in doctrine, than “the ancients” in experience. What a fruitful harvest did David reap in the field of Scripture. The same wisdom may be found by each of us if we learn from the same testimonies.
Psalms 119:102
No other teaching is so practically effectual. He teacheth us to profit.
Psalms 119:103 , Psalms 119:104
May such a holy abhorrence of sin be found in each of us evermore.
The men that keep thy law with care,
And meditate thy word,
Grow wiser than their teachers are,
And better know the Lord.
Thy precepts make me truly wise;
I hate the sinners’ road;
I hate my own vain thoughts that rise;
But love thy law, O God.
Evening
“I am Thy servant, give me understanding.”
Psalms 119:105-128
Psalms 119:105
It is a practical guide, not a book for my study only, but for my daily walk.
Psalms 119:107
Our greatest need in times of trouble is more spiritual life. Afflictions will be a gain to us if they are sanctified to our more thorough arousing and enlivening. We have a promise that it shall be so, for the psalmist says, “according unto thy word.”
Psalms 119:109
Fear often drives away holy thought, and urges men to sin; faith enables the believer to remain in quiet communion with God, even when life itself is in danger.
Psalms 119:110-115
Bad companions must be chased away, for they are great enemies to holy living. We must be plain with the ungodly, and tell them that their company will never please us till they learn to please God.
Psalms 119:116-119
God’s justice in treading down and destroying the wicked is not distasteful to a holy mind; on the contrary, we love him for being angry with evil, and relieving the world of those who are given over to it. A God without justice would be no God to just men.
Psalms 119:120
Seeing others punished, we feel a holy awe in our own souls, and fear lest we also should be deceived by sin.
Psalms 119:124
We dare not court justice, yet we do not ask for a mercy which would allow us to sin; we crave the grace which teaches us to follow after holiness.
Psalms 119:125
A good master will teach his young servant his business and bear with his ignorance; he cannot, however, give him understanding; but this our heavenly Master can perform.
Psalms 119:126
When bad living and bad doctrine cast a slur upon religion, we may importunately beg the Lord to interfere to protect the interests of his own word. Are we not living in precisely such times?
Psalms 119:127 , Psalms 119:128
David was a decided man, he took strong ground and did not compromise, he loved right and hated wrong. That is the only safe position: there let us be found.
Great is their peace who love thy law,
How firm their souls abide!
Nor can a bold temptation draw
Their steady feet aside.
Thou hast inclined this heart of mine,
Thy statutes to fulfil;
And thus, till mortal life shall end,
Would I perform thy will.
