Pray with Spurgeon: God’s sweet promises to sinners

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Gracious God, we have all sinned. Your servants who are members of the Church of Christ would acknowledge that we have not lived for God as they should. How little have we done for him who died to save our guilty souls. Our love is cold. Your mercies flow to us like rivers, but returns are but scanty drops.

Lord, forgive us all. We come to you conscious that we are guilty, and most of all ashamed of ourselves that we are not more ashamed, and blushing that we do not blush, mourning that we do not mourn. God be merciful unto us sinners. With the tax-collectors we take our place. Our cry is the cry of the returning prodigal. O Father, we are not worthy to be called your sons, but our faith beholds the promise, the sweet and assuring promise made to sinners, and we know that God was in Jesus Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imparting to us our trespasses.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“I am at rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him.” (Psalm 62:1)

David had no mixed reliance. He has no confidence anywhere but in God. He had not built on a foundation partly of iron and partly of clay; it was all in harmony throughout. His trust was in the Lord alone. It is a blessed thing to wait only on God. You have proved everything else to be a failure, and now you hang upon the bare arm of God alone. There is certainly enough for us to depend on there. Most people want something to see, something tangible to the senses, to be the object of their confidence, but David rests only in God. His salvation is already on the road. It is coming now. It is a salvation from present trouble and from present temptation. A complete salvation is on the road for all those whose souls are waiting only on God.

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Remember the sweetness and wonder of salvation

I LOVED the way Spurgeon described Christ’s salvation offer in today’s prayer: “the sweet and assuring promise made to sinners.” I love those words, because they remind us that salvation is not merely an escape from hell, but bringing us to the sweet reward of God himself.

This is also the theme of John Piper’s newest book, What is Saving Faith? This book is a wonderful display of the GOODNESS of God to give us himself in salvation. Piper argues biblically that the kind of faith that actually saves is a faith that treasures God above all things.

This book is so encouraging and I know it will encourage you.

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