DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
O you are God, we have heard you say, “Be still and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10); and what a silence you have made in our heart, where else there had been murmuring and complaint, when we have understood “The Lord has done it.” Aaron held his peace when he knew this; and so would we.
Nay, we would do more. We would speak out of our griefs and our down-castings, and say, “The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord…. Even if he kills me, I will hope in him. I will still defend my ways before him” (Job 1:21, 13:15) “for God is indeed good to Israel, to the pure in heart” (Psalm 73:1).
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Even if he kills me, I will hope in him. I will still defend my ways before him.” (Job 13:15)
Job was a master sufferer. He was brought lower than any, and, therefore, being a man of faith, having overcome and triumphed by faith, it was like him to utter such a noble speech as this. I hope all of us who have any faith at all may have that faith so increased that, without boasting, we might be able to echo Job’s words. Faith is not a grace of luxury but a grace of necessity. We must have it, or we would not be the people of God at all. The common habit of the Christian is a habit of trusting.
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Today we prayed, asking God for faith like Job — a faith that holds fast to God, even when we are surrounded by trials. When we are overwhelmed by trials, we must hold fast to our God.
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