DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Now Lord, if there be any cause of anxiety upon the heart of any of your servants so that they cannot praise you upon the high-sounding cymbals, but feel bound to sit down in the dust, hear their complaints. Does an unforgiven sin lie there upon the conscience of any child of yours? Then help your dear child to confess it with his head in his Father’s bosom, and to receive full absolution. May you say, “Daughter, your sins are forgiven. Son, go in peace, your sins are forgiven.” Or, is it that we are mourning under some great grief, which perhaps has not yet happened, but the shadow of which is upon us? Give your servants great patience.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“… but he brought us from there in order to lead us in and give us the land that he swore to our ancestors.” (Deuteronomy 6:23)
We were in the land of darkness and in the valley of the shadow of death. We were fond of sin—we were slaves to it, and we had no wish or will to escape from it. But with an everlasting love God tore the heavens and in majesty came down. He brought us out and he will bring us in. If the Lord does not bring us into glory, then the precious blood of Christ has been shed in vain, and the Holy Spirit has operated on our hearts in vain. If God does not finish his work on us and in us, then people and devils will say that he began to build, but he could not finish.
Let us, therefore, trust in him, and say, “He will bring us in.” Across the Jordan we will go with our Joshua, the Lord Jesus, at our head; and we will take our possession, everyone of us, in that glorious land and stand in that day, as surely as he has brought us out.
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