DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
We are bound at this time to remember our country, and we do. O God, in your great wisdom, step into this time of anxiety and dread. Oh that peace may come. By your great mercy, teach our senators wisdom. We have already prayed before you that justice might be executed upon those who have committed cruel murder; but we do pray that no policy of vengeance may be followed by us, that we may, in a Christian spirit, seek to overcome evil with good. We are afraid that our senators have not grace enough to do it, but we pray that they may have it, and that still firmly but yet not vindictively the ship of state may be steered through these troubled waters and brought at last to a peaceful haven.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“If I had decided to say these things aloud, I would have betrayed your people.” (Psalm 73:15)
Some people have made up a kind of proverb like this: “If you think it, you may as well speak it.” But it is not so. Bad thoughts should never be spoken. If a man has evil thoughts but does not utter them, the mischief will not be so great as if he were to make them known to others.
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