DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
O Lord our God, we do ask you to look upon the faint-hearted and those who are falling through affliction. Bring up your people from the depths of the sea. Take away our mourning and give us music; remove our sackcloth and give us beauty; take away our sighs and fill our mouths with songs; and let this be a radiant day of gladness, and a time of feasting from the Bridegroom’s own hand; and may our own spirits rejoice in him, with joy unspeakable and full of glory.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the person who seeks him.” (Lamentations 3:25)
With his mouth full of gravel stones and made drunk with wormwood, overwhelmed with sorrow, yet Jeremiah says, “The Lord is my portion.” Whatever else we have lost, we have not lost our God.
Even though it is out of the depths of the utmost distress that we seek God, we will find him to be good to us. “To those who wait for him.” We must not be in a hurry. We should not expect to be delivered out of our trouble the first time we begin to cry out to God. “Wait for him.”
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