DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Our hearts devoutly believe that Christ has risen from the dead; but Lord, we want by your Holy Spirit to know the facts in their living power. We wish that we might have fellowship with our Lord, who is our Head, in all this. Oh, that we might know how to die with him, and to live with him in newness of life. O God, we do rejoice that the old man was crucified with him (Romans 6:6).
We would daily mortify the flesh with its affections and lusts. We wish to be to the world, to sin, to selfishness as dead and buried men; as dead men, out of mind, so would we be. Oh, that no faculty might hear the voice of the charmer when it charms us towards sin! May we be delivered from the mere power to obey the lusts of the flesh and the temptations of the devil.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be rendered powerless so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin.” (Romans 6:6)
We are to regard ourselves as persons that have been dead. We are ourselves, it is true; and yet in another sense we are not our own selves. We are not to look upon ourselves as though we owed any kind of service to the power which we obeyed before we knew the Lord. We are new people, we have got a new life, and have entered upon a new existence—the old man is crucified with him.
There was no getting free from the power of sin, except by dying to it; but, being dead to sin, we are free from it; and, now being dead that way, we have entered into a new life that we might live as Christ lives.
RECOMMENDED RESOURCE
The Bible’s Big Story — A Musical for the Whole Family (Seriously)
Over the last year, my family has listened to The Greatest Story Ever Told: The Bible album by High Point Church almost every day. This is a super fun collection of songs that tells the story of the whole Bible for the whole family.
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