DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
As for our sin, you have cast it as far from us as from yourself, as far as the east is from the west. Have you not said, “I will cast all their sins behind my back” (Isaiah 38:17)? And you have done it. Even to as many as have looked to the wounds of Jesus you have given personal cleansing, and we are clean everywhere through the water and the blood; and we need not be ashamed to stand even before your presence, O three-times holy one, for we have washed our robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore, we would always be before you, and serve you day and night in your temple, dwelling ever with you, sleeping under the shadow of your wings, and rejoicing in the light of your countenance.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble; he saved them from their distress.” (Psalm 107:13)
Many a man offers what he calls prayer when he is in good ease and thinks well of himself, but in very deed the only real cry to God is that which is forced out of him by a sense of utter helplessness and misery. We pray best when we are fallen on our faces in painful helplessness.
Speedily and willingly, God sent relief. It was a long time before they cried, but it was not long before he saved. They had applied everywhere else before they came to him, but when they did address themselves to him, they were welcome at once.
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