DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Blessed God, Father, Son, and Spirit, our whole spirit would fear you; yet we have such knowledge of your goodness, that we might not be overawed with your greatness; such a sense of your nearness in the person of Jesus Christ, the Man, the Branch, that we might not be driven away with terror, but may be drawn near with filial love and holy boldness.
Lord, there was once a great gulf between us, but you have bridged that gulf; for now the Lord Jesus Christ is brother to our souls, yet is he Son of the Highest; truly man, yet truly God, he is the Interpreter, one of a thousand, the Daysman, who does this day lay his hand upon us both. Oh how we rejoice in Christ, and you do rejoice in him too. We long to glorify him, and you delight to glorify the Son. We would set him on high, and you have set him “far above every ruler and authority, power and dominion, and every title given” (Ephesians 1:21).
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“He exercised this power in Christ by raising him from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavens—far above every ruler and authority, power and dominion, and every title given, not only in this age but also in the one to come.” (Ephesians 1:20–21)
The power of God, which works in a believer, is the same power with which he raised Christ from the dead, and set him in this pre-eminent place. Not only raising him from the dead, but lifting him up to his own right hand, and setting him there, “in the heavenly places.” It takes a great deal of grace to make a believer, and to keep a believer; nothing but the almighty power of God can do it.
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