DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Blessed spirit, please teach us to be more useful every day. Help us reach people for the Lord. Give us insight into their hearts, as much as we can be trusted with it. May our lives have the fragrance of Christ, who has made us glad and surrounded us with spices. May our conduct and conversations show that we have been with Jesus of Nazareth. Give us the accent of truth, righteousness, and love so that those who have rejected our Lord may come to honor and reverence him through us, guided by your spirit.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“… he pours contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland. But he lifts the needy out of their suffering and makes their families multiply like flocks.” (Psalm 107:41)
In these two verses we see how the Lord at will turns the wheel of providence. Paying no respect to man’s imaginary grandeur, he puts princes down and makes them wander in banishment as they had made their captives wander when they drove them from land to land: at the same time, having ever a tender regard for the poor and needy, the Lord delivers the distressed and sets them in a position of comfort and happiness.
This is to be seen upon the roll of history again and again, and in spiritual experience we remark its counterpart: the self-sufficient are made to despise themselves and search in vain for help in the wilderness of their nature, while poor convicted souls are added to the Lord’s family and dwell in safety as the sheep of his fold.
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God’s love is an ocean. Dive in with Spurgeon.
A major theme in Spurgeon’s preaching (and all of Scripture!) is the incomparable love of God. God’s love provides for us, serves us, helps us, forgives us. God’s love, seen supremely at the cross of Christ, is our only hope in life and death. It’s important that we continually remember and reflect on the greatness of God’s love.
To help you continue to enjoy God’s love, I put together a new book, Spurgeon on God’s Love. This book compiles twelve sermons by Spurgeon, all reflecting on the glorious reality of God’s unchanging love.
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I hope you’ll grab a copy for yourself (and another one for a friend!) and reflect on God’s love in your summer reading.