DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
We lie humbly before you, confessing our sin, our frequent sin, our willful sin; our sin against light and knowledge; sins of heart and thought, sins of word, and sins of action. There is no power of body, or of the will, which has not been defiled with sin; and we confess this before you with much shame. So great has been the stream, that we are sure there must be a deep and large fount of pollution within our nature; and you have made some of us to know that it is so. You have taken us into the chambers of imagery, that are within our spirit, and we have dug through the wall, and have gone from one chamber to another; and the deeper we search, the more we are shocked; and the further we have pried into the secrets of our being, the more are we utterly ashamed that we should be such creatures as we are by nature.
We are altogether undeserving, we look to your loving-kindness and tender mercy, and expect much from that divine source, through Jesus Christ your Son.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“If we say, ‘We have no sin,’ we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1:8)
We are walking in darkness when we thus talk of light. It is easy for a blind man to talk of light though he cannot see it; and there are some who boast of very superior light who, nevertheless, are so much in the dark that they cannot even see their own sin.
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