DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Many of us have fled to Christ, and you have blotted out our sin. We praise you for full remission, freely and graciously given, never to be reversed; for you have said: “I will cast their iniquities into the depths of the sea.” What a joy is this! May your believing people be certain of it. May they know that there is “therefore now no condemnation for them who are in Christ Jesus.” May their souls rest and triumph in the perfect washing, and the perfect clothing, which Jesus’ blood and righteousness have given to us. And oh that others, who have never yet known your pardoning love, might come to you, and take it, and receive it.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Others went to sea in ships, conducting trade on the vast water. They saw the LORD’s works, his wondrous works in the deep.” (Psalm 107:23–24)
Beyond the dwellers on the land they see the Lord’s greatest works, or at least such as stayers at home judge to be so when they hear the report thereof. Instead of the ocean proving to be a watery wilderness, it is full of God’s creatures, and if we were to attempt to escape from his presence by flying to the uttermost parts of it, we should only rush into the Lord’s arms, and find ourselves in the very center of his workshop.
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