Pray with Spurgeon: Jesus loves the Father. May we love him too.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Oh, if we have a spark of love toward you, may your Holy Spirit now fan it to flame. And since the firstborn has made us brothers, and is himself the firstborn among many brothers, may that same love which is in the heart of the firstborn be in the hearts of the younger brotherhood, that we may all love you, O Father, even as Jesus loves you, and you love him.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“I will sing of faithful love and justice; I will sing praise to you, LORD.” (Psalm 101:1)

He would extol both the love and the severity, the sweets and the bitters, which the Lord had mingled in his experience; he would admire the justice and the goodness of the Lord.

Everything in God’s dealings with us may fittingly become the theme of song, and we have not viewed it rightly until we feel we can sing about it. We ought as much to bless the Lord for the judgment with which he chastens our sin, as for the mercy with which he forgives it; there is as much love in the blows of his hand as in the kisses of his mouth. Upon a retrospect of their lives instructed saints scarcely know which to be most grateful for—the comforts which have cheered them, or the afflictions which have purged them.

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