DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Through the rebellion of our flesh we cannot delight ourselves in your ways, because they are hard and afflictive apparently; yet we do delight in you, and we will at all times rest our souls in the excellence and goodness and lovingkindness of the Most High. As you have revealed yourself in Christ Jesus, you have now become to your people the object of inexpressible delight.
You have bidden us delight in you, promising to give us the desire of our hearts. We trust we can, many of us, truly say that you are our exceeding joy; the thought of God does bring exceeding pleasure to our soul. Our soul exults in her God: He is our God and we will extol him, he is our fathers’ God and we will glorify him.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.” (Exodus 15:2)
Notice, the song is all of God; there is not a word about Moses. Read this song through, and neither Moses, nor Aaron, nor Miriam are in it: God is all in all: “I will sing to the Lord.” That is blessed praise when self lies with the Egyptians at the bottom of the sea, and when everything that is in us that is commendable is traced to the grace of God, and the Lord is magnified for it. Oh for the glorification of Jesus, and none but Jesus!
Brothers, we spoil our music by diverting our thoughts to man. Let us forget men, forget earth, forget time, forget self, forget this mortal life, and only think of our God. The song shall be all for you, O Lord, for you are all in all; and if we have one note that is determined to go astray we will this day bind it with cords, even with cords to the horns of your altar, O Lord.
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