DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
We know not which most to wonder at, your lovingkindness or our ingratitude. How stupid, how indifferent have we been. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but we have not known, we have not considered. Even the sheep follow their shepherd but we would not follow you, but we went astray after any leader rather than follow him who is now today our All-in-All. Lord, we thank you for your long-suffering mercies, that you have not cut us down.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.” (Psalm 51:7)
David’s horrible sin had stained him and left him needing to be washed. The power of Jesus Christ to cleanse from sin must lie, first, in the greatness of his person. It is inconceivable that the sufferings of a mere man, however holy or great he might have been, could have made atonement for the sins of all of the Lord’s chosen people. It was because Jesus Christ was one of the persons in the divine Trinity. It was because the Son of Mary was none other than the Son of God. It was because he who lived and labored and suffered and died was the great Creator, without whom nothing was made that was made, that his blood has such efficacy that it can wash the blackest sinners so clean that they are “whiter than snow.”
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