DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Bless, at this time, those who are beginning to seek after better things. Though perhaps as yet they do not know the Lord, if there is any stirring up of grace to seek something better, Lord, lead them further than they mean to go. Bring them to yourself. O dear Savior, bring men up from the very depths of transgression, from lust, and drunkenness, and wrath, and rioting, and evil speaking—bring them up, Eternal Spirit. How glad we are to get a word with them; how anxious that that word should, like the Master’s, reveal them to themselves, and then reveal him to them.
Let the dark parts of the wicked city see the flame-flash of Christ’s eye. May it come to pass that there should be added to our church of such as shall be saved, who once were among the number who seemed right to be damned.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have observed and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life…” (1 John 1:1)
The facts of Christ’s history on earth are recorded by eyewitnesses who could not be deceived concerning them. They exercised their various senses with regard to Christ—hearing, seeing, and touching him again and again. They were veracious witnesses, and they died in testimony of their faith in what they asserted. And when anything has been heard, seen, inspected, and even touched and handled, by a company of reliable witnesses, the testimony of such witnesses concerning it must be accepted as true.
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