DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
You, most blessed Jesus, Son of the Highest, we also worship you with an intensity of affection. You are our brother, our redeemer, our next of kin, and we know that you live; and though after worms destroy this body, yet in our flesh shall we behold you. We shall see you for ourselves and not another, to which hope we are daily coming.
You will come to take your people up to their eternal home; therefore do we adore you now with all our heart, and with all the sacred love of our being. Blessed be the Son of God who spared not his honor, but became a man, who spared not himself, but died “the just for the unjust to bring us God.”
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)
Proud, domineering, supercilious gentlemen, who look down upon the poor as though they were so many worms crawling in the earth beneath their feet, the psalmist could not bear. The sight of them made him suffer, and therefore he would not suffer them. Great men often affect aristocratic airs and haughty manners, David therefore resolved that none should be great in his palace but those who had more grace and more sense than to indulge in such abominable vanity.
Proud men are generally hard, and therefore very unfit for office; persons of high looks provoke enmity and discontent, and the fewer of such people about a court the better for the stability of a throne. If all slanderers were now cut off, and all the proud banished, it is to be feared that the next census would declare a very sensible diminution of the population.
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