DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Prepare us, Lord, and keep us eagerly waiting for your coming or for our ascent to be with you. Oh, the short time that remains until we see the God with whom we speak today! In a few days, weeks, months, or years, we will cross the Jordan and each enter our inheritance. May it be so, God willing! May none of us fall short due to unbelief, but may we all be present when the roll is called, ready to answer to our names. Grant this, O blessed Lord of love.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“The earth has produced its harvest; God, our God, blesses us.” (Psalm 67:6)
He will make the earth’s increase a true blessing. People will see in his gifts the hand of the same God whom ancient Israel adored, and Israel, in particular, will rejoice in this blessing and exult in her own God. We can never truly love God until we know that he is ours, and the more we love him, the more we long for complete assurance that he is indeed ours. What name dearer than “my own God” can we give him? The bride in the Song of Solomon has no sweeter song than “my beloved is mine, and I am his.”
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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.
These sermons have really encouraged me over the last few months and I know that they will encourage you! Plus, buying a copy is a great way to support this ministry, so I can continue to send this newsletter every day.
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.