DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Our Father, we love you with all our hearts for your matchless love in giving up your only-begotten Son for us. You were ever well-pleased with him. You have delighted in him and he in you. Yet for our sakes, for the sake of miserable puny beings, whom you might have swept away in a moment, you gave him that he might take upon him our nature; that having taken our nature he might be your servant, and might carry out his obedience unto death, even the death of the cross.
We find it very hard to see our children suffer, and if they are taken from us by death, our hearts are broken. Yet you did, infinitely loving Father, give your only-begotten Son that he might die, and that we might live through him.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“For the Lord is good, and his faithful love endures forever; his faithfulness, through all generations.” (Psalm 100:5)
No fickle being is he, promising and forgetting. He has entered into covenant with his people, and he will never revoke it, nor alter the thing that has gone out of his lips. As our fathers found him faithful, so will our sons, and their seed forever. A changeable God would be a terror to the righteous, they would have no sure anchorage, and amid a changing world they would be driven to and fro in perpetual fear of shipwreck.
It would be good if the truth of divine faithfulness were more fully remembered by some theologians; it would overturn their belief in the final fall of believers, and teach them a more consolatory system. Our heart leaps for joy as we bow before One who has never broken his word or changed his purpose.
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