DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Above all, blessed Jesus, our Reedemer, let your love to us fire us with love to you. Stamp your dear image on our hearts, and let us never wander from the path of complete obedience to your will. Here we stand, asking to be washed again in the open fountain that every sin may be put away; but also begging to be washed in the water “from the riven side that flows,” that every wrong desire, every base aspiration, everything contrary to the mind of God may be utterly taken away from us.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory.” (2 Corinthians 4:17)
Our affliction is light compared with the blessing and privileges that we enjoy. The blessing of full and free forgiveness far outweighs any affliction we ever have to endure. And our affliction is light as we prove the power of the Lord’s sustaining grace. We may well say that no affliction weighs more than a gnat resting on an elephant when the Lord’s upholding grace is sweetly manifested to our soul in times of perplexity, anxiety, and pain. Once more our affliction is light when we see what it leads to. Our growth in grace is greatly assisted by affliction and trial. Certain propensities to evil can only be removed in the furnace—as the dross is burned away from the pure metal.
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