Category Archives: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Opportunity
He who observes his opportunities will find them plentifully given him.
Are You a Bee or a Wasp?
Let us, dear friends, as a church and people be working people. Faith works; let us work because we have faith. I wish that every member of this church were at work for Jesus. I have very little to complain of, because I do believe that the major part of the dear brethren and sisters associated here are hard at it; but if there are any of you who are not serving the Lord, I pray you bestir yourselves. You must work, or your faith will be questioned, and your love will be suspected. We are a hive of bees, but what will happen if instead of making honey the workers all turn to drones? Why they will next turn to wasps. If such a change cannot take place in nature it certainly does occur in morals and spirituals, for we have seen companies of good hard-working Christians suddenly break out into factions and quarrel furiously. When bees turn to wasps there is nothing but fighting. May our good Lord save us from such a calamity. I do not mind being like the queen bee in the hive, king of the bees, but a leader of wasps I cannot be. Dear friends, do get to work for the Master: you, I mean, who stand all the day idle. Go work today in the Saviour’s vineyard. Oh, my beloved brethren, I beseech you do not relax your energies. Continue to be a lively, energetic church.
Do You Recognize God’s Chastening Rod in Your Life?
The Spirit of God often sends home the reproofs of Scripture to our hearts; while we are reading the word we feel that it searches us and rebukes us. So also the Lord will employ his ministers to chide us. Little is that ministry worth which never chides you. If God never uses his minister as a rod, depend upon it he will never use him as a pot of manna, for the rod of Aaron and the pot of manna always go together, and he who is God’s true servant will be both to your soul.
The Lord will also chide you through your own conscience, causing you to judge and condemn yourself. The Spirit of God will quicken your understanding, and then it will be said of you as of David, “David’s heart smote him.” It is hard hitting when the heart smites, for it comes to such close quarters, but blessed is that man who can thus be corrected: it is a sad sign when conscience is too dead to be of any service in this direction.
My Theology
My theology is now in four little words! CHRIST DIED FOR ME!
By Their Fruits You Will Know Them
I am not surprised that some Christians have so little joy, when I remember what little pleasure they are giving to Jesus because they are producing such a sparse crop of fruit for His praise and glory.
I Am My Greatest Enemy
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
Preaching Is Worship
There is no worship of God that is better than the hearing of a sermon.
Leaking Hands
I felt when I was coming up to preach tonight as if I had been down like a little child to the sea, and I had stooped to the wave and filled my palms as well as I could with the sparkling water, but as I have been coming to bring it to you, it has nearly all trickled away, for I am not able to hold it by reason of my leaking hands.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 – 1892) on his preaching
He Must Increase; I Must Decrease
Be content to be nothing, for that is what you are. When your emptiness is painfully forced upon your consciousness, chide yourself that you ever dreamed of being full, except in the Lord.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)
Life Is Worship 