DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Most gracious Father, we who have received Christ now desire to receive something more than pardon and salvation. We long that Christ may be in us the hope of glory—yes, of glory, of perfection, and exaltation. If we are darkened today, may we be enlightened by the brightness of the hope that is to be revealed.
Help your poor servants to live above poverty, because they are rich in Christ. Let your suffering and afflicted ones, though the body be torn with pain, yet be full of joy, because there is a hope—a glorious hope—that the body shall be raised again from the grave and shall suffer no more. The Lord grant us grace not to live in this cloudy day of the present, but to mount aloft into the eternal brightness of the future, and to anticipate those joys which you have reserved for those who love you.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“And there he lets the hungry dwell, and they establish a city to live in; they sow fields and plant vineyards and get a fruitful yield.” (Psalm 107:36–37)
Men work when God works. His blessing encourages the sower, cheers the planter, and rewards the laborer. Not only necessities but luxuries are enjoyed, wine as well as corn, when the heavens are caused to yield the needed rain to fill the watercourses. Divine visitations bring great spiritual riches, foster varied works of faith and labors of love, and cause every good fruit to abound to our comfort and to God’s praise. When God sends the blessing, it encourages and develops human exertion. Paul plants, Apollos waters, and God gives the increase.
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