DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
We cry to you after holiness. You know that we do not expect to be saved by it; but we do look upon it as salvation, to be saved from sin, to be delivered from corruption; to be emancipated from the bondage of the evil is the great thought of our spirit, and we look forward to heaven with this as one of its highest felicities, that we shall be without fault before the throne of God, and that nothing that defiles shall ever enter there.
O Lamb of God, by whom we have been redeemed from sin and washed from uncleanness, will you graciously daily wash our feet, that we may be clean everywhere, and may enter in through the gates into the city, and be among those of whom it is written—“they will walk with me in white, because they are worthy.”
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“But you have a few people in Sardis who have not defiled their clothes, and they will walk with me in white, because they are worthy.” (Revelation 3:4)
They who have not defiled their garments shall have their faces always bright. He who is accepted of God shall wear white garments of joy and gladness while he walks in sweet communion with the Lord Jesus. Why so many doubts, so much misery, and mourning? It is because so many believers defile their garments with sin and error, and hence they lose the joy of their salvation, and the comfortable fellowship of the Lord Jesus, they do not here below walk in white.
RECOMMENDED RESOURCE
A Practical Plan to (Actually) Become Holy
As we prayed today, we all want to be holy as God is holy. If we are really born again, we hate sin and love righteousness — we want to follow our Lord and be more like him. But many Christians have a hard time making the jump from desiring holiness to pursuing holiness.
The good news is that we don’t have to guess. In the Bible, God has already laid out a perfect plan for helping us grow in godliness (to be more like him). And that plan is the spiritual disciplines.
Spiritual disciplines are disciplined habits like Bible reading, prayer, fasting, and serving with the specific goal of growing in godliness. A great guide for understanding and growing in the spiritual disciplines is Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life by Donald S. Whitney.
If you read this book and apply its lesson, I know that you will grow in godliness, because this book is rooted in Scripture. God has a plan for you to grow in holiness — and the spiritual disciplines are this plan. Make this summer a fruitful season of growing in holiness by reading Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life.