DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
O God, we are often ashamed of ourselves to find how vehemently our affections will turn toward earthly loves, how soon we are carried away by a sort of spiritual harlotry after other things. Oh, make us to be chaste to you; our whole heart being given up to the one ever-blessed God, in the Trinity of divine Persons, whom we would worship this morning with all our heart and soul and spirit.
We ask of you, most blessed Father, that your Holy Spirit may repeat in us the life of Christ. Especially, we pray that we may know the fellowship of his suffering, and the power of his resurrection.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“He turns rivers into desert, springs into thirsty ground,” (Psalm 107:33)
When the Lord deals with rebellious men he can soon deprive them of those blessings of which they feel most assured; their rivers and perennial springs they look upon as certain never to be taken from them, but the Lord at a word can deprive them even of these. In hot climates after long droughts streams of water utterly fail, and even springs cease to flow, and this also has happened in other parts of the world when great convulsions of the earth’s surface have occurred. In providence this physical catastrophe finds its counterpart when business ceases to yield profit and sources of wealth are made to fail; as also when health and strength are taken away, when friendly aids are withdrawn, and comfortable associations are broken up. So, too, in soul matters, the most prosperous ministries may become dry, the most delightful meditations cease to benefit us, and the most fruitful religious exercises grow void of the refreshment of grace which they formerly yielded.
Therefore, we must walk before God with reverential gratitude, and so to live that it may not become necessary for him to afflict us.
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