Pray with Spurgeon: One glimpse of Jesus is brighter than the sun

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Oh, Savior, grant us a glimpse of your great love. One flash of your eye is brighter than the noonday. One word from your lips will be sweeter to us and more full of music, than the harps of angels. Grant it to every one of your children all over the world, both to the sick and to the dying. Oh how gloriously will they die!

And now Lord, we ask you to bless our country at this time, and by your great and infinite mercy preserve us, we ask you, from war. Oh, that peace may reign yet all over the world. The Lord grant that wars may utterly cease unto the ends of the earth. Oh make a way we pray, for the progress of Christianity, of civilization, of liberty, of everything that is honest and of good repute. May your kingdom come, and your will be done, in earth, as it is in heaven, for yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory, forever and ever.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“Love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 19:19)

What are you to do to your neighbor? Love him. It is a hard thing—to love someone. It is not enough for you to say you do not hate your neighbor; you are to love him. When you see him in the street, it is not sufficient that you keep out of his way and do not knock him down. It is not sufficient that you do not bother him by night or disturb his quiet. It is not a negative command; it is a positive command. Love is not in the not doing; it is the doing. True, you must not injure him, but you have not done all when you have simply refrained from harming him. You ought to love him, which is more than giving to charity. Only when your heart goes with your hand and the kindness of your life bespeaks the kindness of your soul do you truly love someone.

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