DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
“So then, he has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy and he hardens whom he wants to harden. You will say to me, therefore, ‘Why then does he still find fault? For who resists his will?’” (Romans 9:18–19)
O Lord God, even while we have been reading that chapter, of which some are so much afraid, we have felt that we could well trust you with a boundless sovereignty, and we do. You are so good, so kind, so just, so holy, that no mistake is possible to you.
You are the fountain and source of all law: what you command, it is ours to obey. We have heard the thunder of that sentence, “On the contrary, who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?” (Romans 9:20); and in meekness of heart and lowliness of spirit, we bow before the infinite glory of your majesty, and it is to us the most joyful of all songs, “The LORD reigns! Let the earth rejoice; let the many coasts and islands be glad” (Psalm 97:1)
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“As it also says in Hosea, I will call Not my People, My People, and she who is Unloved, Beloved.” (Romans 9:25)
If we look at the original state of God’s people, we gaze on a gloomy picture. Yet this portrait reveals the state in which every unconverted person finds himself—the state in which all of us, who are now saved, once were. We were not God’s people—that is to say, God did not approve of us at all. Our thoughts were contrary to God’s thoughts. Our ways were such as God could not endure. Our speech grated on his ears. We followed the devices and imaginations of our own hearts. The prince of this world had dominion over us, and God’s grace had not been displayed in our lives. We went astray like lost sheep. That is the condition of all lost sinners today.
But what a wonderful experience it is when the poor lost sinner finds out that he or she belongs to God and has been redeemed by the precious blood of Christ! In that case God says to all repentant sinners, “You are my people; you are loved!”
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