DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
O Lord, the God of your people, those whom you have chosen, and called, and redeemed, and saved, must and will bless your holy Name. Surely, if we were to refuse your praises, our silence would be sinful in the highest degree. We praise you, O blessed God, not only with our hearts but with our voices. Blessed be the day in which you brought us to accept you as our portion, and our heritage, for now we find in you a possession ample and wide.
There is no limit to your goodness, your riches are unsearchable. You have all good things within the compass of yourself, and you have given yourself to us according to your word, “I will be their God, and they shall be my people.” We bless the Lord that our heritage is never exhausted. The world has its winter, but you hav none. Even the world’s sun has its wintry times and we only see a little above the horizon, but you are always a summer’s sun to your people, without variableness or shadow cast by turning.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” (James 1:17)
There is variableness and there is the shadow of turning in the sun, but in that greater Father of lights there is no change in any direction; he is evermore the same, and we may go to him with unwavering confidence because he is the same. Oh! what a blessing to such changing creatures as we are to have an unchanging God!
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