Spurgeon Morning & Evening – April 11, 2026: Poured Out Like Water & Sorrow Lighter Than Sin

Morning – April 11

ESV: “I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint.” (Psalm 22:14)

Original Spurgeon: Did earth or heaven ever behold a sadder spectacle of woe! In soul and body, our Lord felt himself to be weak as water poured upon the ground. The placing of the cross in its socket had shaken him with great violence, had strained all the ligaments, pained every nerve, and more or less dislocated all his bones. Burdened with his own weight, the august sufferer felt the strain increasing every moment of those six long hours. His sense of faintness and general weakness were overpowering; while to his own consciousness he became nothing but a mass of misery and swooning sickness… To us, sensations such as our Lord endured would have been insupportable… but in his case, he was wounded, and felt the sword; he drained the cup and tasted every drop.

Hendricks Reflection

My friend, have you ever felt poured out—every bone out of joint, no relief in sight? That’s exactly where Jesus was, fully awake to every pain for you.

I wonder… what “cup” in your life are you asking God to numb, when He might be inviting you to drink it fully with Him today?

Evening – April 11

ESV: “Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.” (Psalm 25:18)

Original Spurgeon: It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sins—when, being under God’s hand, we are not wholly taken up with our pain, but remember our offences against God… The special lesson… is this:—that we are to go to the Lord with sorrows and with sins in the right spirit… A Christian counts sorrow lighter in the scale than sin; he can bear that his troubles should continue, but he cannot support the burden of his transgressions.

Hendricks Reflection

My friend, David didn’t demand relief—he asked God to look at his pain, then pivoted straight to forgiveness. Sorrow passes; sin sticks.

I wonder… which weighs more on you right now—your pains or your sins? What changes if you bring both to the cross today?

Daily Tie-In – April 11

Morning: Christ’s poured-out agony. Evening: Pour out sorrows + sins to Him. Calvin: Spirit convicts (Institutes 1.7). Edwards: Grief to gratitude. Keller: Gospel comforts because it forgives. Dedicated to Clarence—gentleness amid affliction.

If poured-out Jesus carries your pain and sin, what stays heavy today?

Soli Deo Gloria. NewGrapes Ministries • April 11, 2026