DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Now, Lord, bless your universal church, and grant to it mercy and favor. Gather together your elect from under all heaven. Let the company of the faithful be accomplished, and the universal reign of Christ established.
Bless our own dear country. God save and bless our leaders with every mercy; guide, uphold, sustain, and direct our rulers. Let them be guilty of no folly; but the Lord teach our senators wisdom.
And may it please you, Lord, to bless other countries too; especially those lands which love our common Christ, and speak our mother tongue; and, indeed, all the nations where Jesus Christ is known, visit with a revival. And the unreached, oh, let the light break in upon their midnight, let the day dawn and Christ be glorified.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“The people who live in darkness have seen a great light, and for those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.” (Isaiah 9:2, Matthew 4:16)
Christ went where he was needed. The “great light” encountered the great darkness; the far-off ones were visited by him who gathers together the outcasts of Israel. Our Lord courts not those who glory in their light, but those who pine in their darkness: he comes with heavenly life, not to those who boast of their own life and energy, but to those who are under condemnation, and who feel the shades of death shutting them out from light and hope.
“Great light” is a very suggestive figure for the gospel, and “sitting in the region and shadow of death” is a very graphic description of men bowed under the power of sin, and paralyzed by fear of condemnation. What a mercy that to those who appear out of the reach of the usual means, to those who dwell “by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,” Jesus comes with power to enlighten and quicken!
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