DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Throughout this year, all of our path has been strewn with mercies, and we desire this morning to record, “Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,” (Psalm 103:2).
We thank you now in the retrospect for the trials which we have endured. Some of us have been brought very low with physical pain and mental weariness, and others have been sorely smitten with bereavement, losses, and crosses, and persecutions, but there is not one out of all our trials which we could have afforded to have been without.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“The humble will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise him. May your hearts live forever!” (Psalm 22:26)
For a while they may keep a fast, but their thanksgiving days must and shall come. “May your hearts live forever.” Your spirits shall not fail through trial, you shall not die of grief, immortal joys shall be your portion. Thus Jesus speaks even from the cross to the troubled seeker. If his dying words are so assuring, what consolation may we not find in the truth that he lives forever to make intercession for us! They who eat at Jesus’ table receive the fulfillment of the promise, “If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever” (John 6:51).
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