DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Our Father, we pray that you would forgive your children all the wrong they have done during another week. If there is anything between us and God, take it away.
You have taught us to ask and it shall be given us; you have called us seek if we cannot find you, and seek until we find. But you have also added, “Knock,” as if there might be a door between us and you: “Knock and it shall be opened.” Lord, if there is any door between us, may that door be opened; may we begin knocking at it now, and never cease until it opens. We would not have even the beginning of a cloud between our heart and our Father.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Blow the ram’s horn on the day of our feasts during the new moon and during the full moon. For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.” (Psalm 81:3–4)
It was a precept binding upon all the tribes that a sacred season should be set apart to commemorate the Lord’s mercy; and truly it was but the Lord’s due, he had a right and a claim to such special homage.
It is as much our duty to reject the traditions of men, as to observe the ordinances of the Lord. We ask concerning every rite and rubric, “Is this a law of the God of Jacob?” and if it be not clearly so, it is of no authority with us, who walk in Christian liberty.
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