DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
O Lord, enrich us with all spiritual blessings according to your riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Give us first complete peace of mind. Deliver us from all slavish fear. Let us rest in the great Father’s love. Save us also from carefulness and that anxiety which frets and eats like a canker. Help us to cast our burden upon you today, whatever that burden may be.
Work in us, O God, the precious gift of faith, and increase faith if we have it. Let us not only have life, but have it more abundantly. Brighten our hope, and may we joyfully expect the coming of the Lord. Every day inflame our love, and may we more intensely love our God, our Savior, and our brethren, and our fellow men. Work in us, we pray, the blessed character of our divine example. Lead us to follow in his steps. May we be truly Christians, as truly as he was Christ.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Jesus replied, ‘This is the work of God—that you believe in the one he has sent.’” (John 6:29)
Faith is most pleasing to God because it is the comprehensive summary of all true work. There lies within a heart of faith every possible form of holiness. As a forest may lie asleep within an acorn, so within the bounds of faith, little though it is, every virtue lies hidden. It may be microscopic in form, but it is certainly there and only needs development.
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