DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
You did pluck us like brands out of the burning. We remember well when you did draw us from a corrupt world, and from our own self-righteousness, and we came to Jesus. But you are drawing still: we feel the sacred bands; we yield to them, glad to do so. Lord, draw us this morning upward to yourself, nearer than ever. May we not be satisfied with those heights of devotion to which we have attained; but may we reach somewhat higher today.
Oh that we might become more completely consecrated! May the image of Christ become more perfect upon us; stamp it deeper into our nature. We trust the image is there; but oh, that it set still deeper into our very selves, that all might see that the seal of the Holy Spirit was upon us, in the likeness of Christ our Lord.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“And the LORD said to Satan, ‘The LORD rebuke you, O Satan! The LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand plucked from the fire?’” (Zechariah 3:2)
The brand is in the fire. Nor is it merely a brand lying upon the heap, to be by-and-by put upon the flames; it is “a brand plucked out of the fire.” It has been in the fire. Does not this portray our condition, not only congenial for the fire of sin, but actually burning and blazing in it? We have blazed away the reverse of merrily since then; some have become charred with sin, till their very bodies contain the marks of that tremendous fire.
But, blessed be God, we have a brand plucked out of the fire. Sinners these, who, though they have still within them the propensity to sin, are no longer in the fire of sin. They have been taken away from it. They have received the renewing grace of God. The fire that once burned within them has been quenched.
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Yesterday I recommended Spurgeon’s classic devotional, The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith, which contains 365 readings, one for each day of the year.
Another much-loved daily devotional by Spurgeon is Morning and Evening, which contains two readings for each day, so that you can start and end every day of 2022 in God’s Word.
Morning and Evening is a masterpiece. It will encourage and guide you throughout the new year.
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