DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Most glorious Lord God, it is marvelous in our eyes that you should become incarnate, that your Son should take our flesh upon him. It surprises us greatly that the Lord of Life should condescend to die, and that the incorruptible One should be laid in the grave. We are full of loving gratitude, we are also full of adoring wonder. When we have stood at the tomb and looked into it, and thought of Jesus having laid there, when we have seen it open and knew that it was empty, we bless your name that even he died and was buried, and magnify you that he is risen again from the dead.
These great facts concerning our divine Lord are the foundation of our confidence in him. We bless you that they have been attested by such four-fold witness (the four gospels), and yet further that afterwards he appeared alive to so large a number of those who knew him, that the fact of his rising from the dead might never be questioned again.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are sanctified.” (Hebrews 10:14)
The glory of the text is that we are perfected forever—not for tomorrow and then allowed to fall from grace; not for the next twenty years and then turned out of the covenant. The blood of Christ has been sprinkled on us; and, therefore, our standing before God is the standing of perfection. And we are always perfect, always fit to come to the throne of God, whatever our doubts, whatever our sins. I do not say this of our character. We come before God in our station not in our character; and, therefore, we may come as perfect people at all times.
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