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Look Unto Me
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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])
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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
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Look Unto Me
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Copyright © 2008 by James G. Reimann
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Charles Spurgeon’s original book is formerly published as Morning by Morning
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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
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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
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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.
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