DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Lord, we would come with our confessions, for as often as we adore you, we feel that we ought to cover our faces. The angels have six wings, but we have none. We cannot cover our faces with wings, but we bless your name we have something better than angelic wings; we have the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ, and with this we cover our faces; with this we cover our feet; and with this we fly out to you now in rapture and adoring love.
You have brought us very near to you, despite our sin; and as for our sin, you have cast it as far from us as from yourself, as far as the east is from the west.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Others sat in darkness and gloom— prisoners in cruel chains—” (Psalm 107:10)
In a spiritual sense affliction frequently attends conviction of sin, and then the double grief causes a double bondage. In such cases the iron enters into the soul, the poor captives cannot stir because of their bonds, cannot rise to hope because of their grief, and have no power because of their despair. Misery is the companion of all those who are shut up and cannot come forth. O you who are made free by Christ Jesus, remember those who are in bonds.
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