DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
O God Most High, the one God of Israel, we are longing to adore you. Adoration will be the employment of heaven; it is certainly our greatest enjoyment on earth. But we are not worthy to come unto your presence, or to present our praises to you. We would therefore, first, in lowly reverence, make confession of our state and of our guilt.
We are fallen creatures, even by nature, and as our nature, such has our life been. We have come short of the glory of God and have offended in many things. We dare not look up apart from the way which you have provided, through the Mediator, Jesus Christ. O God, if you had driven us long ago from your presence, and had forbidden us to think of worship, what could we have said? How could we dare to tread your courts on the ground of merit; for surely if you should lay your justice to the line, and your righteousness to the plummet, there is not one of us that could stand?
O Lord, we thank you for the atonement.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“He led them by the right path to go to a city where they could live.” (Psalm 107:7)
There are many wrong ways, but only one right one, and into this none can lead us but God himself. When the Lord is leader the way is sure to be right; we never need question that. Forth from the pathless mazes of the desert he conducted the lost ones; he found the way, made the way, and enabled them to walk along it, faint and hungry as they were.
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