DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Lord, we bless you for ever teaching us the way of faith; for enabling us to cast our guilty souls upon the Divine propitiation, made in Christ Jesus; for peace, like a river, has streamed into our spirit ever since. We bless you for the power to trust you with everything else; for time, as well as for eternity. We are sure we never live except when we live by faith; that all else is but death, and the counterfeit of life.
Lord God, you have written death before our eyes on all the creature; you have made us see the vanity of the most substantial things on earth. Behold we walk as in a vain show, and we disquiet ourselves in vain. All things are but shadows; but you, you are the eternal All. Casting our anchor upon you, we are steadfast, and fixed, and safe; but all things else are quicksands. We cannot—dare not—find comfort, nor make a hope of them. You, Lord, are all our expectation, all our salvation, and all our delight; and this morning, in the act of public devotion, we would cry, “Rest in God alone, my soul, for my hope comes from him” (Psalm 62:5)
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Rest in God alone, my soul, for my hope comes from him.” (Psalm 62:5)
The soul is apt to be dragged away from its anchorage, or is readily tempted to add a second confidence to the one sole and sure ground of reliance; we must, therefore, stir ourselves up to maintain the holy position which we were at first able to assume. Be still silent, O my soul! Submit yourself completely, trust immovably, wait patiently. Let none of your enemies’ imaginings, consultings, flatteries, or maledictions cause you to break the King’s peace.
Unmingled faith is undismayed. Faith with a single eye sees herself secure, but if her eye be darkened by two confidences, she is blind and useless.
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