Morning and Evening Devotional with C.H. Spurgeon – June 7, 2026

Morning Devotional for June 7, 2026

“O you who love the LORD, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.” — Psalm 97:10 (ESV)

Thou hast good reason to “hate evil,” for only consider what harm it has already wrought thee. Oh, what a world of mischief sin has brought into thy heart! Sin blinded thee so that thou couldst not see the beauty of the Saviour; it made thee deaf so that thou couldst not hear the Redeemer’s tender invitations. Sin turned thy feet into the way of death, and poured poison into the very fountain of thy being; it tainted thy heart, and made it “deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.” Oh, what a creature thou wast when evil had done its utmost with thee, before divine grace interposed! Thou wast an heir of wrath even as others; thou didst “run with the multitude to do evil.” Such were all of us; but Paul reminds us, “but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.” We have good reason, indeed, for hating evil when we look back and trace its deadly workings. Such mischief did evil do us, that our souls would have been lost had not omnipotent love interfered to redeem us. Even now it is an active enemy, ever watching to do us hurt, and to drag us to perdition. Therefore “hate evil,” O Christians, unless you desire trouble. If you would strew your path with thorns, and plant nettles in your death-pillow, then neglect to “hate evil:” but if you would live a happy life, and die a peaceful death, then walk in all the ways of holiness, hating evil, even unto the end. If you truly love your Saviour, and would honour him, then “hate evil.” We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like abundant intercourse with the Lord Jesus. Dwell much with him, and it is impossible for you to be at peace with sin.

Morning Reflection

When Spurgeon urges us to hate evil, he is not calling for a public performance of righteousness. He is asking us to remember what sin has already done to us. It once blinded our eyes to the beauty of Christ and deafened our ears to His invitations. It poisoned the very source of our desires and turned our steps toward death. Even after years of walking with the Lord, that same enemy remains active, patient, and willing to re-enter through habits we thought we had mastered. The comfort of being washed and justified must never make us careless. To hate evil is to stop negotiating with it as though it were a harmless guest in a house that now belongs to Christ. It means admitting, without shame but with honesty, that temptation still finds us even when our outward life appears settled. Spurgeon’s remedy remains the same: dwell much with Jesus. Only His presence has the power to make sin lose its former appeal.

Morning Nectared Goad

You may have learned to manage what God has told you to hate. 🛡️

Evening Devotional for June 7, 2026

“Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.” — Revelation 3:19 (ESV)

If you would see souls converted, if you would hear the cry that “the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord;” if you would place crowns upon the head of the Saviour, and his throne lifted high, then be filled with zeal. For, under God, the way of the world’s conversion must be by the zeal of the church. Every grace shall do exploits, but this shall be first; prudence, knowledge, patience, and courage will follow in their places, but zeal must lead the van. It is not the extent of your knowledge, though that is useful; it is not the extent of your talent, though that is not to be despised; it is your zeal that shall do great exploits. This zeal is the fruit of the Holy Spirit: it draws its vital force from the continued operations of the Holy Ghost in the soul. If our inner life dwindles, if our heart beats slowly before God, we shall not know zeal; but if all be strong and vigorous within, then we cannot but feel a loving anxiety to see the kingdom of Christ come, and his will done on earth, even as it is in heaven. A deep sense of gratitude will nourish Christian zeal. Looking to the hole of the pit whence we were digged, we find abundant reason why we should spend and be spent for God. And zeal is also stimulated by the thought of the eternal future. It looks with tearful eyes down to the flames of hell, and it cannot slumber: it looks up with anxious gaze to the glories of heaven, and it cannot but bestir itself. It feels that time is short compared with the work to be done, and therefore it devotes all that it has to the cause of its Lord. And it is ever strengthened by the remembrance of Christ’s example. He was clothed with zeal as with a cloak. How swift the chariot-wheels of duty went with him! He knew no loitering by the way. Let us prove that we are his disciples by manifesting the same spirit of zeal.

Evening Reflection

Spurgeon’s call to zeal is easily misunderstood in a culture full of religious noise. We have all seen intensity that burns brightly for a season and then fades without transforming the heart. True zeal, as he describes it, flows from the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit within us. It is nourished by gratitude for the pit from which we were rescued and by the sobering reality of eternity. It is strengthened by watching how Christ Himself moved—never loitering, always about His Father’s business. Zeal does not require us to become the loudest voice in the room. It invites us to care, with holy seriousness, that Christ’s kingdom would come in the actual places we live and among the people we know. Even in seasons of weariness, zeal remembers that the King we serve gave Himself for others. That memory has a way of stirring the heart again when comfort has made us slow.

Evening Nectared Goad

You can ask God to advance His kingdom while quietly protecting the very comforts that keep you from spending yourself for it. 🛡️

Tie-In

Morning and evening speak to the same heart. The believer who is learning to hate evil is the same believer who must not grow passive about the advance of Christ’s kingdom. Hatred of sin without zeal for souls can become a private morality. Zeal without hatred of sin can become empty religious activity. Together they form the life of a disciple who both turns from what destroys and spends himself for the glory of the King.

Valley of Vision Prayer

Openness

Lord of immortality, before whom angels bow and archangels veil their faces, enable me to serve Thee with reverence and godly fear. Thou who art Spirit and requirest truth in the inward parts, help me to worship Thee in spirit and in truth. Thou who art righteous, let me not harbour sin in my heart, or indulge a worldly temper, or seek satisfaction in things that perish.

I hasten towards an hour when earthly pursuits and possessions will appear vain, when it will be indifferent whether I have been rich or poor, successful or disappointed, admired or despised. But it will be of eternal moment that I have mourned for sin, hungered and thirsted after righteousness, loved the Lord Jesus in sincerity, gloried in His cross. May these objects engross my chief solicitude! Produce in me those principles and dispositions that make Thy service perfect freedom.

Expel from my mind all sinful fear and shame, so that with firmness and courage I may confess the Redeemer before men, go forth with Him bearing His reproach, be zealous with His knowledge, be filled with His wisdom, walk with His circumspection, ask counsel of Him in all things, repair to the Scriptures for His orders, stay my mind on His peace, knowing that nothing can befall me without His permission, appointment and administration.