Look Unto Me: The Devotions of Charles Spurgeon PDF
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This page is intentionally left blank Look Unto Me 00331100228833887766__llooookkuunnttoommee..iinndddd 11 88//2299//0088 77::4477::1188 AAMM Also by Jim Reimann Streams in the Desert: 366 Daily Devotional Readings by L. B. Cowman (updated by Jim Reimann) Streams in the Desert for Graduates by L. B. Cowman (updated by Jim Reimann) Streams for Teens by L. B. Cowman (updated by Jim Reimann) My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers (updated by Jim Reimann) Coming Fall 2010: The companion to Look Unto Me: Hear My Voice: The Devotions of Charles Spurgeon (expanded, indexed, and updated by Jim Reimann [drawn from Evening by Evening]) 00331100228833887766__llooookkuunnttoommee..iinndddd 22 88//2299//0088 77::4477::1188 AAMM Look Unto Me T h e D e v o t i o n s o f C h a r l e s S p u r g e o n Jim Reimann editor of the updated editons of streams in the desert® & my utmost for his highest 00331100228833887766__llooookkuunnttoommee..iinndddd 33 88//2299//0088 77::4477::1188 AAMM Look Unto Me Adobe® Acrobat® eBook Reader® format Copyright © 2008 by James G. Reimann This title is also available as a Zondervan ebook. Visit www.zondervan.com/ebooks. Charles Spurgeon’s original book is formerly published as Morning by Morning Requests for information should be addressed to: Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530 ISBN-13: 978-0-310-30136-3 All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible: New International Ver- sion®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked AMPLIFIED are taken from The Amplified Bible, New Testament. Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1987, by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. Scripture quotations marked ESV are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright © 2000, 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked NASB are taken from the New American Standard Bible, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. Scripture quotations marked NKJV are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Abbreviations of translations used: AMPLIFIED: Amplified Bible ESV: English Standard Version KJV: Kings James Version NASB: New American Standard Bible NKJV: New King James Version Italicized emphasis in Scripture verses has been added by the editor/author. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmit- ted in any form or by any means — electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other — except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Interior design by Christine Orejuela-Winkelman 00331100228833887766__llooookkuunnttoommee..iinndddd 44 88//2299//0088 77::4477::1188 AAMM Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else. Isaiah 45:22 KJV 00331100228833887766__llooookkuunnttoommee..iinndddd 55 88//2299//0088 77::4477::1188 AAMM CONTENTS The History Behind Look Unto Me Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Part 12 Scripture Index Subject Index About the Author This page is intentionally left blank The History Behind Look Unto Me Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else. Isaiah 45:22 KJV “Sell all [the books] you have . . . and buy so then, I must honestly say I never heard Spurgeon.” them once fully preach the gospel. I mean by that, they preached truth, great truths, These are the words of the noted twentieth- many good truths that were fi tting to many century German theologian Helmut Thielicke of their congregation — spiritually minded (1908 – 1986). Including 140 books and 25,000 p eople — but what I wanted to know was, sermons, Spurgeon has some 25 million words “How can I get my sins forgiven?” And they in print, more than any other Chris tian author, never told me that. I wanted to hear how a living or dead. poor sinner, under conviction of sin, might Spurgeon’s conversion fi nd peace with God. At last, one snowy day — it snowed so Charles Haddon Spurgeon (June 19, 1834 – Janu- much I could not go to the place I had de- ary 31, 1892) fi nished writing Morning by Morn- termined to go — I was forced to stop along ing (now expanded, indexed, and updated as Look the road, and it was a blessed stop to me. I Unto Me) in 1865, when he was only thirty-one found an obscure street and on that street years old — an amazing work for such a young was a little chapel — a place I did not know. I man! By that time, however, he had been a pas- entered and sat down, but no minister came. tor faithfully expositing God’s Word for fourteen Finally, a very thin-looking man came to the years, for he was called to the ministry at the early pulpit and opened his Bible and read these age of seventeen. Ultimately, he would leave this words: “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all earth at the age of fi fty-seven, having spent forty the ends of the earth” (Isa. 45:22 KJV). Then, years as a preacher, pastor, and author as well as setting his eyes upon me, as if he knew my founder of a pastor’s college and an orphanage. heart, he said: “Young man, you are in trou- The Lord saved him at the age of fi fteen, on ble.” Well, I was, sure enough. He continued, January 6, 1850. The following is his salvation ac- “You will never get out of it unless you look count in his own words: to Christ.” And then, lifting up his hands, he It pleased God in my childhood to convict cried out, “Look, look, look! It is only look!” me of my sin. I lived as a miserable creature, I saw at once the way of salvation. Oh, how I fi nding no hope or comfort; thinking, surely did leap for joy at that moment! I don’t know God would never save me. But I resolved to what else he said — I did not take much visit every place of worship in town to fi nd notice of it, for I was so possessed with that the way of salvation. I was willing to do any- one thought. I had been waiting to do fi fty thing, and be anything, if God would only things, but when I heard this word “Look!” forgive me. what a charming word it seemed to me. Oh, I set off, going to all the places of wor- I looked until I could almost have looked my ship, and though I dearly venerate the men eyes away! And in heaven I will look on still who occupy those pulpits now, and did in my joy unspeakable. i 00331100228833887766__llooookkuunnttoommee..iinndddd SSeecc11::ii 88//2299//0088 77::4477::1188 AAMM
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