DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Above all things, give us grace to trust in Jesus, in the full atonement made, and the utmost ransom paid. He is “my whole salvation and my every desire” (2 Samuel 23:5), may we each one be able to say this of him, who “became wisdom from God for us—our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption” (1 Corinthians 1:30).
Oh, let us never mistrust you, blessed Son of God. May we have no doubt about your Father’s love—no suspicion as to the love of the Spirit; but may we rejoice in God by Jesus Christ, through whom also we have received the atonement. May we come to anchor, and, casting anchor in the port of peace, may we never be troubled again about that question, but be able to say “My Father,” with an unfaltering lip.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us—our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.” (1 Corinthians 1:30)
Man’s intellect seeks after rest, and by nature seeks it apart from the Lord Jesus Christ. Men of education are apt, even when converted, to look upon the simplicities of the cross of Christ with an eye too little reverent and loving. They are snared in the old net in which the Greeks were taken, and have a hankering to mix philosophy with revelation. The temptation with a man of refined thought and high education is to depart from the simple truth of Christ crucified, and to invent, as the term is, a more intellectual doctrine. This led the early Christian churches into Gnosticism, and bewitched them with all sorts of heresies. Whoever you are, good reader, and whatever your education may be, if you be the Lord’s, be assured you will find no rest in philosophizing divinity.
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