DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Look with great mercy upon your people. Some of them are full of joy. You have sown their sky with stars. Their way is bright with inward joy and with surrounding comforts. May they not begin to worship their comforts, nor kiss their hands to the stars, nor begin to make a god of the things around them. O Lord, keep your people in the hour of prosperity. May our hearts never wander from the living God, and may we walk as much by faith in the unseen as we should do if we were in the dark.
But many of your people are in quite another case. Some of us are in pain. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Help us to rise above the flesh. Some here are remembering household troubles. Enable them not to forget them, but to feel that they come from the Father’s hand, and that he must have a good intent in them. So may they accept the bitter cup, and as they drink it, may the cup of consolation be set to their lips.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“As you go, proclaim, ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’” (Matthew 10:7)
Their first work was proclaiming the coming kingdom, and preparing the way for the coming King. Those Israelites who were willing might become subjects of this heavenly kingdom, and therefore were they informed of its near approach.
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