DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Glorious God, there are many of us who can bless you that we know you. There was a time when we lived in your world, but had never known the Creator. We were partakers of your providence, but we did not know the Provider. We went up and down in the sunlight, but we were blind. There were voices all around us, but we were deaf to all things spiritual. And some of us lived in this way for years.
Some people we know are like that today: they know not God: neither do they desire the knowledge of your ways. They can see and understand many things, but they do not desire to know him in whom they live and move and have their being. It was a happy day for us when, in the infinite sovereignty of your love, you did look upon us and call us by your grace. Then did the dead heart begin to beat. Then did light enter the darkened eye, and then we turned to you. It was the best discovery we had ever made, when we found that there was, after all, a God, ready to hear us, willing to listen to our cries.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes. Immediately they could see, and they followed him.” (Matthew 20:34)
Oh, that the reader, if he be spiritually blind, may ask for the touch of Jesus, and receive it at once, for immediately he will receive sight! An inward light will in an instant shine forth upon the soul, and the spiritual world will become apparent to the enlightened mind. The Son of David still lives, and still opens the eyes of the blind. He still hears the humble prayer of those who know their blindness and their poverty. If the reader fears that he, too, is spiritually blind, let him cry unto the Lord at this very instant, and he will see what he shall see, and he will for ever bless the hand which gave sight to the eyes of his soul.
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