DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Lord, maintain the faith you have created; strengthen it, let it be more and more simple. Deliver us from any sort of reliance upon ourselves, whatever shape that reliance might take, and let our faith in you become more childlike every day that we live; for, O dear Savior, there is room for the greatest faith to be exercised upon your blessed person and work. O God, the Most High and All-sufficient, there is room for the greatest confidence in you. O Divine helper, the Holy Spirit, there is now sufficient room for the fullest faith in your operations. Grant us this faith.
Oh, work it in us now, while, at the same time, we do confess that if we have it not, it is our shame and sin. We make no excuse for unbelief, but confess it with detestation of it, that we should ever have doubted the truthful, the mighty, the faithful God. Yet, Lord, we shall fall into the like sin again, unless the grace that makes us know it to be sin shall help us to avoid it.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“My son, keep your father’s command, and don’t reject your mother’s teaching.” (Proverbs 6:20)
True religion comes to many of us recommended by parental example. Unhappily, it is not so with all of you. There are some who had an evil example in their childhood, and who never learned anything that was good from their parents. You, dear friends, have special cause for thankfulness, that your children shall not be subjected to the same disadvantages as you yourselves suffered. Since the Lord has looked in love upon you, let your households be holiness to the Lord, and so bring up your children that they shall have every advantage that religious training can give, and every opportunity to serve the living God.
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