DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
As long as we live we will bless you name, our King, our God of love; for there is none like you. “Who do I have in heaven but you? And I desire nothing on earth but you” (Psalm 73:25). Our soul is clean separated from all earth’s good, and married to the Christ of God forever. By bonds that never can be snapped, we are one with him, and who shall separate us from his love?
The Lord be pleased to reveal himself to his servants. Oh, for the uplifting of the veil, for the drawing near of the people that are made glad by the blood, for the speaking of God unto the soul, and the speaking of our soul unto God. Oh, for converse with the Eternal, for such fellowship as they may have who are raised up together with Christ, and made to sit in the heavens with him.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“After he was perfected, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him…” (Hebrews 5:9)
Did Christ need to be made perfect? Not in his nature, for he was always perfect in both his divine and his human nature. But he was willing to undergo the process that made him completely fit for the office of a Savior—that is, perfect in his obedience, perfect as a sacrifice, perfect as the mediator and substitute for his people. Being made perfect through suffering, he is able fully to discharge his office.
This is eternal salvation in the sense that it rescues us from eternal condemnation and everlasting punishment. Some say, “You may have eternal life today and lose it tomorrow.” How can life be eternal if one can lose it? A salvation that was not eternal would turn out to be no salvation at all. Those Jesus saved are saved indeed.
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