DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Blessed Lord Jesus, you will never cast away a soul that has cast away everything else for you. You are bound to those who trust you by the ropes of your promises that never can be broken. And here we are, this morning, babes that hang upon your bosom—emptinesses that are being filled, and sometimes are filled, only they cannot hold all of you. The sea is in us, but we are in the sea. We are filled with the fullness of God, and into that fullness are we still sinking deeper and deeper.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“You are not your own, for you were bought at a price. So glorify God with your body.” (1 Corinthians 6:19–20)
If bought, we are not our own. Now if it is true that we are not our own, then the inferences from this are that we have no right to injure what does not belong to us; and, as we are not our own, we have no right to be idle or to waste our talents. Further, we have no right to do what our old will would do; we are to desire to be obedient to the will of our Father who is in heaven. Yet again, if we are not our own, then we have no right to serve ourselves. The person who is living entirely for himself, whose object is his own ease, comfort, honor, or wealth—what does he know about redemption by Christ? If our aims rise no higher than our personal advantages, we are false to the fact that we “are bought at a price;” we are traitors to him in whose redemption we pretend to share.
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