DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Oh, Savior, grant us a glimpse of your great love. One flash of your eye is brighter than the noonday. One word from your lips will be sweeter to us and more full of music, than the harps of angels. Grant it to every one of your children all over the world, both to the sick and to the dying. Oh how gloriously will they die!
And now Lord, we ask you to bless our country at this time, and by your great and infinite mercy preserve us, we ask you, from war. Oh, that peace may reign yet all over the world. May there be wisdom given where we fear folly, and strength given where wisdom reigns.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“The Lord answered her, ‘Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has made the right choice, and it will not be taken away from her.’” (Luke 10:41–42)
What I can do for Christ is little. What he did for me is so amazing—so matchless, so unspeakable, so glorious—that I ought to give that the major part of my attention. I may sometimes run with Martha to do what Christ needs of me, but I think I should more frequently sit with Mary to receive from Christ what I need from him. Our religion is not of a first-class order if it is altogether looking at our practice and not at the finished and perfect work of Christ.
Martha, Martha, Christ does not stand in need of you half as much as you do of him. It is proper for you to think how you may economize time to attend the house of prayer, and how you will bring up your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and how you will save a little money to give to the poor or to Christ’s church. All these things are right. It is well you should do them. But remember, Christ did more for you.
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