DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
O Lord, we thank you for the atonement, for the great expiatory Sacrifice. So would we surround your altar, O God. We come sprinkled with the blood to a blood-sprinkled mercy Seat, and we are not afraid to come when we can make mention of the righteousness of Christ and his atonement. We feel that we are reconciled unto God by the death of his Son. Lord, let a sweet sense of pardon and perfect cleansing rest upon the hearts of your people. May those who have never yet come to you for mercy, look to Jesus and be saved; and may those of us who long ago were washed in the fountain filled with blood, now receive the foot washing which Jesus daily gives, and, being cleansed everywhere, may we be able to come with our adoration into the presence of the Eternal God
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“For he has satisfied the thirsty and filled the hungry with good things.” (Psalm 107:9)
This is the summary of the lost traveller’s experience. He who in a natural sense has been rescued from perishing in a howling wilderness ought to bless the Lord who brings him again to eat bread among men. The spiritual sense is, however, the more rich in instruction. The Lord sets us longing and then completely satisfies us. That longing leads us into solitude, separation, thirst, faintness, and self-despair, and all these conduct us to prayer, faith, divine guidance, satisfying of the soul’s thirst, and rest: the good hand of the Lord is to be seen in the whole process and in the divine result.
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