DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
O Father, in your presence, although we feel at peace with you, we cannot help but lament the many times we have offended you. We also mourn that even now we fall far short of what we owe you. Cleanse us, O Lord, cleanse us with hyssop, and we will be clean; wash us, and we will be whiter than snow. We confess our transgressions, and we will not hide our iniquity; but we look again to the great Sacrifice. Our eyes are on the Lamb that was slain, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Rising up to the sky, sinking down to the depths, their courage melting away in anguish, they reeled and staggered like a drunkard, and all their skill was useless.” (Psalm 107:26–27)
What more can they do? They have used every expedient known to navigation, but the ship is so strained and beaten about that they know not how to keep her afloat.
Here too the spiritual mariner’s log agrees with that of the sailor on the sea. We have staggered frightfully! We could stand to nothing and hold by nothing. We knew not what to do, and could have done nothing if we had known it. We were as men distracted, and felt as if destruction itself would be better than our horrible state of suspense. As for wit and wisdom, they were clean washed out of us; we felt ourselves to be at a nonplus altogether.
Some of us have weathered many such an internal hurricane, and have indeed seen the Lord’s wondrous works.
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