DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Oh Lord, we begin our praise by the acknowledgment of our natural condition; we would remember the miry clay, and the rock whence we were hewn, for we were “were by nature children under wrath as the others were also” (Ephesians 2:3). Well do we remember when we felt this, and when the bitterness and gall were in our mouths, of which we had to drink both day and night.
How heavy was the load of sin! All our thoughts were engrossed with that sense of pressure and of dread. We looked on the right hand and there was none, and on the left and we found no helper; but then you yourself delivered us by leading us to cast a faith-look to the Divine, Only begotten, and crucified Son. You brought us up out of the “horrible pit” (Psalm 40:2)
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“He brought me up from a desolate pit, out of the muddy clay, and set my feet on a rock, making my steps secure.” (Psalm 40:2)
When our Lord bore in his own person the terrible curse which was due to sin, he was so cast down as to be like a prisoner in a deep, dark, fearful dungeon, amid whose horrible glooms the captive heard a noise as of rushing torrents, while overhead resounded the tramp of furious foes. Our Lord in his anguish was forgotten of all mankind, surrounded by horror, darkness, and desolation. Yet God made him to ascend from all his abasement; he retraced his steps from that deep hell of anguish into which he had been cast as our substitute. He who thus delivered us from our worst sin, will not fail to liberate us from our far lighter griefs.
The Redeemer’s work is done. He rests on the firm ground of his accomplished engagements; he can never suffer again; forever does he reign in glory.
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