DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Oh that we might be willing to come to the Savior as people that want saving, to come to his blood to be washed, to come weak and feeble, to find strength in him, and nowhere else. You will not meet us on any other terms but these. The Pharisees you would not meet. You went away from them when they had heard about you, that you made and baptized disciples: then you avoided them, for you had not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?” (Romans 7:24)
Now, the more holy a man gets the more he cries in this fashion. While he is low down in the scale, he puts up with sin, and he is uneasy, but when he gets to see Christ and get somewhat like him, the more nearly he approximates to the image of his Master, the more the presence of the least sinful thought is horrifying to him. He would, if he could, never look on sin again—never have the slightest inclination to it, but he finds his heart getting abroad and wandering when he would tether it down, if he could, to the cross and crucify it there. And so the more happy he is in Christ the more desperately does he cry against the wretchedness of being touched with sin, even in the least degree.
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