DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Oh, what have you done for us, great God? What a wondrous grace is this; and what have you prepared for us? Who can tell what you have laid up for them that fear you, among the sons of men? We would now approach you, Lord, with that fatherly fear which well becomes dear children who are conscious of a thousand transgressions.
Yet would we approach you with that familial boldness which is born of a sense of love, and daily grows upon mercies perpetually given. We worship you, O God our Father, with all our heart, and soul and strength. We love you; we trust you; we delight in you; you are all in all to us. You have made with us an everlasting Covenant, ordered in all things and sure; and therefore are we bound to you by bonds that never can be broken.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“I will destroy anyone who secretly slanders his neighbor; I cannot tolerate anyone with haughty eyes or an arrogant heart.” (Psalm 101:5)
The psalmist had known so bitterly the miseries caused by slanderers that he intended to deal severely with such vipers when he came into power, not to revenge his own ills, but to prevent others from suffering as he had done. To give one’s neighbor a stab in the dark is one of the most atrocious of crimes, and cannot be too heartily reprobated, yet such as are guilty of it often find patronage in high places, and are considered to be men of penetration, trusty ones who have a keen eye, and take care to keep their lords well posted up.
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