DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Oh, sword of the Lord, pierce sinners through, that carelessness may be slain, that their souls may live. Oh, you who are as a polished shaft hidden in the quiver of the Eternal, go forth today to smite to the heart the proud, the self-righteous, and those that will not stoop to ask mercy at your hands.
But as for the humble and the contrite, look upon them; the broken-hearted and the heavy-laden, please relieve; and such as have no helper, please help. Bring up the sinner from the prison house, let the lawful captive be delivered. Let the mighty God of Jacob lead forth his elect, as once he did out of Pharaoh’s bondage. The Red Sea is already divided that they may march through it. The Lord save multitudes—He knows those who are his. Accomplish their number and let Jesus so be rewarded, though Israel be not gathered.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“How, then, can they call on him they have not believed in? And how can they believe without hearing about him? And how can they hear without a preacher?” (Romans 10:14)
Here you have the whole plan of salvation. Christ is preached, sinners hear the message of the gospel, they believe it, and so they are saved. What a mass of rubbish people have interjected into this blessed simple plan! How different this is from the cumbersome, complicated plan by which men would destroy our souls. Cling to the old-fashioned gospel and never turn away from it! Nothing can take the place of the simplicity of divine truth.
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