DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Let the divine attractions of infinite affection and love lift each one of us up from the world. Oh, you have loved us with a love surpassing thought. You have redeemed us with a price beyond all price; and can we be cold and indifferent towards you? Come, blessed Spirit, come, and fire us with heaven’s own flame! Oh that we may be filled with such love as seraphs know, with more than a seraph’s delight and more than a seraph’s energy.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“and to know Christ’s love that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:19)
The love of Christ in its sweetness, its fulness, its greatness, its faithfulness, passes all human comprehension. Where shall language be found which shall describe his matchless, his unparalleled love towards the children of men? It is so vast and boundless that, as the swallow but skims the water, and dives not into its depths, so all descriptive words but touch the surface, while depths immeasurable lie beneath.
RECOMMENDED RESOURCE
Cultivating passion for God (by enlarging your view of God)
Today we prayed, lamenting that our faith and love is often cold. As we confessed, we know that this is unreasonable, but sometimes we have a hard time commanding our feelings. It isn’t always easy to “throw logs on the fire” and increase the heat of our love for God.
But for most of us, what we need isn’t an exciting event or life-changing experience — what we need is to get a better view of who our God really is, in all of his splendor and majesty.
A great book for increasing your view of God is Not God Enough by JD Greear. Greear writes that “the secret to a robust, passionate faith isn’t getting all the right answers about God, but seeing God as the awesome, glorious, and infinite presence that he is.”
Enlarging your view of God will enlarge your love for him, so grab a copy of Not God Enough today and see from God’s Word how majestic our God really is.