DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Now with this thankfulness upon our hearts, we would humbly ask you to strengthen us as to our future confidence in you. Are there any of your servants here at this time, or anywhere all over the world, whose confidence begins to fail them, by reason of present affliction or deep depression of spirit?
We ask you, strengthen the things that remain, that are ready to die; and let their faith no longer waver, but may they become strong in the Lord in full assurance of faith. Oh God, you know the burden of every heart before you, the secret sighing of the prisoner comes up into your ears.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Now to him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, without blemish and with great joy…” (Jude 24)
The power to create a world, to divide the rocks, to shake the mountains or set them ablaze is inferior compared with the power that is able to keep us from stumbling. God has been pleased to make us free agents and never deprives us of our free agency. Yet, without the destruction of a quality necessary to our responsible personhood, God is nevertheless able to keep us from stumbling. He could do this by shutting us up in a prison or by depriving us of the power to commit sins. But he does not keep us in that way. He leaves us with every faculty and propensity that we had before. Yet, by some mysterious, omnipotent working of his Holy Spirit—which we can no more understand than we can the blowing of the wind—he keeps his people from stumbling.
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