DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Our Father, for that is the sweetest title by which we can address you, save us entirely from sin. There are many in your presence who are resting in the peace which comes with justification by faith. We know that we are righteous through the righteousness of another, even Jesus Christ; but we pant and pine for personal likeness to yourself.
If you are our Father, then upon every child of yours should be the Father’s image impressed: so let it be. We ask you, Lord, to enable us to recognize our death to sin; and when it tempts us may we be deaf to the voice of the charmer with the deafness of death; and when it would use our members as instruments of unrighteousness, may we be quite incapable thereof with the incapacity of death.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“For I am the LORD, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, so you must be holy because I am holy.” (Leviticus 11:45)
Observe the reason for obedience to the command: “because I am holy.” Children should be like their fathers. There are many children who bear, in their very faces, evidences of their sonship. You know who their fathers were by the image that the children bear. Oh, that it were always so with all the children of God: “You will be holy, because I am holy.”
God shows us his law in his holy actions, he being himself the very mirror and paragon of everything that is absolutely pure and right. Above all, the Lord has been pleased to set us an example of mounting above the world in the person and life of his own dear Son.
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