Pray with Spurgeon: God, we long to be holy like you

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Savior, help us to mortify the flesh with its corruptions and lusts. May that which was our pride become our shame; that which was our love become our hate. May every form of sin for which we have been so ready to make excuse and apologies, be condemned by us, and taken out to die a felon’s death.

Let not our hands spare, nor our eyes have pity upon any one of our sins; but may we smite them until we have been clean delivered from their dominion, and even from their intrusion. We sigh for holiness, we long for it. Lord grant we may attain to it, yes, to the very fullness of it by your sanctifying Spirit.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“He turns a desert into a pool, dry land into springs. He causes the hungry to settle there, and they establish a city where they can live.” (Psalm 107:35–36)

They will appreciate the change and prize his grace. As the barrenness of the land caused their hunger, so will its fertility banish it forever, and they will settle down a happy and thankful people to bless God for every handful of corn which the land yields to them. None are so ready to return a revenue of praise to God for great mercies as those who have known the lack of them. Hungry souls make sweet music when the Lord fills them with his gracious gifts. Are we hungry? Or are we satisfied with the husks of this poor, swinish world?

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