DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
O Lord, we take to ourselves without stealth, but of good and honest right, all the blessings of the Covenant; seeing we are heirs of the Covenant, joint-heirs with Christ Jesus your Son, and therefore our soul exalts in God; for you are ours in Covenant now, and we are yours. You are the Covenant God, and we are the Covenanted ones, a people near unto you, whom your grace has chosen and called and redeemed and set apart unto yourself; of whom you have said, even of all believers: this is “the people I formed for myself will declare my praise” (Isaiah 43:21)
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“My eyes favor the faithful of the land so that they may sit down with me. The one who follows the way of integrity may serve me.” (Psalm 101:6)
What I wish myself to be, that I desire my servant to be. Employers are to a great degree responsible for their servants, and it is customary to blame a master if he retains in his service persons of notorious character; therefore, lest we become partakers of other men’s sins, we shall do well to decline the services of bad characters.
A good master does well to choose a good servant; he may take a prodigal into his house for the sinner’s good, but if he consults his own he will look in another quarter. Wicked nurses have great influence for evil over the minds of little children, and ungodly servants often injure the morals of the older members of the family, and therefore great care should be exercised that godly servants should be employed as far as possible. Even irreligious men have the sense to perceive the value of Christian servants, and surely their own Christian brethren ought not to have a lower appreciation of them.
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