DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Lord, you have heard our prayers, even when we have hardly thought they could be answered. We have been unbelieving, but you have been faithful. We have been undeserving, but your grace has never failed. Many of us have known you now as long as Israel knew you in the wilderness, these forty years, and never once have you failed to keep your promises, or to remember your people for good.
May our faith grow exceedingly. May we that have had experience of your goodness, feel ashamed ever to entertain a doubt, and when the dark thought ever crosses our mind which would make us mistrust, may we chase it as a strange and vain thought, which must not even lodge, much less dwell, within our hearts. “The Lord lives, and blessed be my Rock”—strong to keep His promise, unchanging, unexhausted, ever the eternal Fountain of good things to his waiting people.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“These are the names of the twelve apostles: First, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;” (Matthew 10:2–3)
Observe how Matthew keeps us in mind that he had been a tax collector. With holy gratitude he thus records his former estate, that the grace which called him might be the more conspicuous. Thomas was as truly called by the Lord as any of them, though he was one whose mind entertained distressing questions.
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