DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Most glorious Lord God, it is marvelous in our eyes that you became incarnate, that your Son took our flesh upon him. It surprises us greatly that the Lord of Life should condescend to die, and that the incorruptible One should be laid in the grave. We are full of loving gratitude, we are also full of adoring wonder. When we have stood at the tomb and looked into it, and thought of Jesus having lain there, when we have seen it open and knew that it was empty, we bless your name that even he died and was buried, and magnify you that he is risen again from the dead.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“I only want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by believing what you heard?” (Galatians 3:2)
We have received the Holy Spirit to help us in our sanctification, but we have obtained no sanctification apart from believing. If we have reached after sanctification by our own efforts, made in unbelief, we have never succeeded. Unbelief works toward sin and never toward sanctification. Our good works are fruits of sanctification, not causes of it; and if we put the fruit where the root should be, we greatly err. Sanctification does not come to us from self-reliance but as a work of the Spirit received by faith in Christ.
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