DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Bless your dear saints—all of them. Comfort them in their afflictions, and bear them up in any trouble of mind. Be very gracious to your people here, binding us more and more firmly together in a holy, living unity; and stir us up more and more to seek the good of the sons of men, and more especially to seek the glory of our divine Lord and Master.
Jesus, we are yours and belong to nobody else. No cause engages our hearts but yours. All our sympathies run one way—in the channel where flows the precious blood of our redeeming Lord. All for Christ and none besides, in our heart at this time. Oh keep it so; keep it so till we behold the well-beloved in his glory, and are wrapped up in his splendor with him.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.” (1 Corinthians 15:58)
In this chapter Paul dealt with the fact of the resurrection and argued in defense of it. Yet he closes with these words. This is a lesson for us. Let us never think we have learned a doctrine until we have seen its fruit in our lives. The text has in it two things—first, it mentions two great points of Christian character—“steadfast, immovable” and “always excelling in the Lord’s work.” And, second, it gives us a grand motive—“because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.”
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