Author: Charles Spurgeon

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Write upon our hearts these blessed words, “Filled with all the fulness of God” (Ephesians 3:19), and may we know it is so; that we have all that we can hold; and may we be praying to be enlarged, that we may take in even more of Christ than we have as yet received; for he is all ours, altogether ours, and ours world without end.

And now, Lord, we beseech you to help us look to Jesus Christ alone. If we are backsliding or questioning whether we ever did believe in Jesus, may we leave that question alone and believe in him now. May we be content to let the past go by the wall, and once for all come, if we never did come, and embrace the Savior whom you, great God, have set forth as all-sufficient to save.

Amen.

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Our soul rests in none but Jesus. We hate and loathe, with our inmost nature, the very idea of adding anything to what he has finished, or attempting to complete what is perfect in him.

Oh, this morning let your people feel that there is now no condemnation to them. Let them feel the completeness of the washing Christ has given, the blessed fullness of the righteousness which Christ has imputed, the eternal vitality of that life with which Christ has endowed us, the indissoluble character of that union by which we are knit to Christ by ties that never can be broken; and may we today rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

Amen.

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You know with what heartiness, and depths of truthfulness, we can say, “Lord, I believe, help my unbelief.” We again declare that all our hope is centered in the atoning sacrifice, and in the risen Savior, who has gone into the glory as the testimony of our justification, and of our acceptance in him.

Oh, dear Savior, if in the course of years we have tried to add anything to the one foundation, if unconsciously we are relying now upon our knowledge, our experience, our Christian effort, we desire to clear away all this heap of rags and get down on the foundation again. None but Jesus! None but Jesus!

Amen.

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Now we want no other rock to build upon, than that which we have built upon; we desire no other hope, nor even dream of any other, but that hope which you have set before us in the gospel, that hope in which we have fled for refuge, and which hope we still have, as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast.

But Lord, we would still begin again this morning by looking unto Jesus Christ anew—whatever may be our sin, whatever your pure and holy eye can see amiss in us, which we cannot see: we desire to come to Jesus as sinners, guilty, lost, ruined by nature, and again to give the faith look, and to behold him hanging on the cross for us.

Amen.

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Our Father, we wish this morning to come to you anew in Christ Jesus. Many of us can look back to the happy moment when first we saw the law fulfilled in Christ, wrath appeased, death destroyed, sin forgiven, and our souls saved. Oh it was a happy morning—a blessed time. Never did the sun seem to shine so brightly as then, when we beheld the Sun of Righteousness, and basked in his light.

Many days have passed since then with some of us, and every day we have had proofs of the faithfulness of God to the gospel of his Son. We have proved the power of Jesus’ blood for daily cleansing; we have proved the power of his Divine Spirit for daily teaching, guidance, and sanctification; and now we want no other rock to build upon, than that which we have built upon.

Amen.

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“First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone, for kings and all those who are in authority….” (1 Timothy 2:1–2)

The Lord bless our country: have pity upon it, in all its present afflicted condition. God bless our leaders with every mercy and blessing. Grant that there may be, in your infinite wisdom, a change in the state of trade and commerce, that there may be no complaint and distress.

Oh, let the people see your hand, and understand why it is laid upon them, that they may turn from wrong-doing, and seek righteousness and follow peace. The Lord hear us as, in secret, we often cry to you on behalf of our beloved land: the Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon it yet again, for Jesus’ sake.

Amen.

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“Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end” (John 13:1, CSB)

Here we are, Lord, and we belong to you. We caught at that word as we read it—“having loved his own….” Oh, it is because we are your own, that we have hope. You will make us worthy of you. Your possession of us is our hope of perfection. You do wash our feet because we are your own.

Oh, how sweet is the mercy which first took us to its heart, and made us all its own, and now continues to deal tenderly with us that, being Christ’s own, we may have that of Christ within us which all may see, and which proves us to be the Lord’s.

Amen.

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Oh Savior, make us like yourself; we wish not so much to do, as to be. If you will make us to be right, we shall do right. We have often put a constraint upon ourselves to be right; but oh, that we were like you, Jesus, so that we had but to act out ourselves to act out perfect holiness.

We shall never rest until this is the case, until you have made us to be inwardly holy; and then words and actions must be holy as a matter of course. Now, here we are, Lord, and we belong to you.

Amen.

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Oh for a complete conquest of self: especially render us insensible to praise, lest we be too sensitive to censure. Let us reckon that to have the approbation of God, and of our own conscience, is quite enough.

May we be content, gracious God, to hear the objections of unreasonable men; yes, and to hear the misrepresentations of own brethren. Those that we love, if they love not us, yet may we love them none the less; and if by mistake they misjudge us, let us have no hard feelings towards them: and God grant we may never misjudge one another. Does not our Judge stand at the door!

Amen.

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Oh help us not to be so easily moved, even by pain: may we have much patience; and let not the prospect of death ever cause us any fear; but may the Spirit get the mastery of the body. We know nothing can hurt the true man—the inner, newborn, cannot be smitten; nor is it to die: it is wholly incorruptible, and lives and abides forever in the life that is in Christ Jesus.

Oh keep us like little children who do not know, but expect to know hereafter, and are content to believe things which they do not understand. Lord keep us humble, dependent, yet serenely joyful. May we be calm and quiet, even as a weaned child; yet may we be earnest and active.

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