DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
What a fountain of delight you are, and how richly you have promised to bless the men that delight themselves in God. You have said, “Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you your heart’s desires” (Psalm 37:4). Do you reward us for being delighted? Oh, pleasant duty, which has appended to it so divine a promise. Shall we have the desire of our heart, when our heart finds all its desire in you? Oh blessed Lord, you do indeed meet them that work righteousness and that rejoice in your ways; and you fill your people with good things, so that their youth is renewed like the eagles’.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you your heart’s desires.” (Psalm 37:4)
Make the Lord the joy and rejoicing of your spirit. Bad men delight in carnal objects; do not envy them if they are allowed to take their fill in such vain idols; look to your better delight, and fill yourself to the full with your sublimer portion. In a certain sense imitate the wicked; they delight in their portion—take care to delight in yours, and so far from envying you will pity them. There is no room for fretting if we remember that God is ours, but there is every incentive to sacred enjoyment of the most elevated and ecstatic kind.
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Find great joy in our great God
Today we prayed, confessing that God is our only hope and happiness. His love is our only true riches. To enjoy this love is the point of the Christian life. That’s why God created you: to know him and enjoy him forever.
If you want to learn more about what it actually looks like to enjoy God in your every day life, read Desiring God by John Piper. This book is an incredible explanation of how God invites us to know him for our joy. This book will leave you amazed at God’s glory, and thoroughly, unshakeable happy in God.
Each chapter focuses on one passage of Scripture, making this book great devotional reading. It will leave you amazed at the goodness of God and leave you desiring more and more of him.
If you think you know the point of this book, but haven’t read it for yourself, I encourage you to read it for yourself. You will be blessed by God’s glory and goodness to his people.
I hope you’ll grab a copy and enjoy it — I know you’ll be blessed by it.