DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
This morning, we feel inclined to bless you for the many occasions in which you have not answered our prayer; for you have said that we did ask wrongly, and therefore we could not have; and we desire to register this prayer with you, that whenever we do ask wrongly, you would in great wisdom and love be pleased to refuse us.
O Lord, if we at any time present our cause without a sufficiency of resignation, do not regard us; and though we cry unto you day and night, concerning anything, yet, if you see that we are wrong in that, regard not the voice of our cry. It is our heart’s desire in our coolest moments, that this prayer might stand on record as long as we live,—“Not as I will, but as you will.”
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” (Matthew 26:39)
This was a prayer of resignation. Yield, and God yields. Let it be as God wills, and God will determine for the best. Be content to leave your prayer in his hands, who knows when to give, and how to give, and what to give, and what to withhold. So pleading, earnestly, importunately, yet with humility and resignation, thou shalt surely prevail.
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