DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Forgive the weakness of our prayer, forgive the wandering of our heart: but through the Well-Beloved, who stands before you now in all his beauty, as risen from the dead; through him whom our soul loves, even as you love him; through him whom we adore as “God over all, blessed forever” (Romans 9:5), though bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh—through him and for his sake, look kindly on us now!
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23)
Eternal life is imparted by grace through faith. When it first enters the soul it comes as God’s free gift. The dead cannot earn life; the very supposition is absurd. Eternal life enjoyed on earth comes to us as a gift. “What!” says one, “do you mean to say that eternal life comes into the soul here?” I say yes, here, or else never. Eternal life must be our possession now; for if we die without it it will never be our possession in the world to come, which is not the state of probation, but of fixed and settled reward.
When the flame of eternal life first drops into a man’s heart, it is not as the result of any good works of his which preceded it, for there were none; nor as the result of any feelings of his, for good feelings were not there till the life came. Both good works and good feelings are the fruit of the heavenly life which enters the heart, and makes us conscious of its entrance by working in us repentance and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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