DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Dear Savior, you know the peculiar trials and conditions of all your people; and, we do pray, now deal with each child of yours according to his special need. Great Physician, come and look on each special case; and may there be a masterpiece of your heavenly surgery in the case of each one of us.
Many of us need comfort; our heart is cast down within us. There are many of your saints, in whose soul deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls. Command your loving-kindness this morning, and let your song be with us at this moment. Up from the shades may we ascend into the eternal light. Oh, that the sun of your love might shine full on our brows, till our faces shall be bright like the face of Moses!
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your billows have swept over me.” (Psalm 42:7)
Little sorrows, great sorrows, overwhelming sorrows, come to the Christian, and they all seem to come at once. Nay, not only do they come to us, but they go over us, till we cry, “all your breakers and your billows have swept over me.” Surely, this language is an exaggeration, for it is only Christ who could say that; but, sometimes, when you and I are in a low dark frame of mind, we are apt to think that we have felt all the twigs of the rod, and that we could not be made to smart more. Little do we really know of it; God grant that we may never know more than we do!
Now comes an exercise for faith, to be able, when down at the bottom of the sea, like Jonah, and at the mercy of every wave, to say with the psalmist in the next verse, “The LORD will send his faithful love by day; his song will be with me in the night— a prayer to the God of my life.”
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