DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Look in great mercy upon the many that may be here, who never have believed in Jesus. O Strong Son of God, Immortal Love—whom, though we have not seen your face, we do believe in, and rely upon—ride forth this morning with your arrows dipped in your own blood, and shoot them out, that the people may fall under them, wounded with the sense of sin, smitten even to self-despair with a consciousness of guilt: and oh, that they might get healing from the hands that wound them, may they get life from the hand that kills their hope. May they look to you, anointed of the Lord, ennobled in the highest heaven, who once received the sinner here below in your own Person, and who still receives sinners: oh, that they might come to you and live.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Not only that, but we ourselves who have the Spirit as the firstfruits—we also groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.” (Romans 8:23)
Our soul has been delivered from the curse. The redemption of the soul is complete, but not yet that of the body. That must suffer pain and weariness, and even descend into the tomb, but its day of manifestation shall surely come.
At the appearing of our Lord from heaven, then shall the body itself be delivered, and the whole creation shall also be delivered. So we wait in a travailing condition; and we may well be content to wait, for these pangs within us and around us signify the glorious birth for which we may wait in hope.
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