DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
O dear Savior, let every believer come very close to you now. May this be a moment in which we shall feel that if there has been distance, and wondering and doubt, there shall not be any of these any longer. We have come close to our Lord; we will lean upon the Beloved; we will abide in him even as he bids us abide, and in the biding gives us the promise, speaks the word of command, “Abide in me and I in you.”
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“I will not let anything worthless guide me. I hate the practice of transgression; it will not cling to me.” (Psalm 101:3)
He was warmly against it; he did not view it with indifference, but with utter scorn and abhorrence. Hatred of sin is a good sentinel for the door of virtue.
How much do we all need divine keeping! We are no more perfect than David, nay, we fall far short of him in many things; and, like him, we shall find need to write a psalm of penitence very soon after our psalm of good resolution.
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