Pray with Spurgeon: We delight in God

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

O you who are the King of kings and Lord of lords, we worship you. Before the Lord’s awe-inspiring throne, we bow with sacred joy. We can truly say that we delight in God. There was a time when we feared you, O God, with the fear of bondage. But now, we revere and love you equally.

The thought of your omnipresence was once dreadful to us. We wondered, “Where shall we flee from your presence?” and it seemed to make hell itself more horrifying, as we heard the voice saying, “If I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there.” But now, O Lord, we desire to find you. Our longing is to feel your presence, and it is the heaven of heavens to know that you are there. The sickbed is soft when you are there. The furnace of affliction grows cool when you are there, and the house of prayer, when you are present, is none other than the house of God and the very gate of heaven.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“I am not praying that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.” (John 17:15–16)

Christ and his people did not go together out of the world all at once; that would have been to leave the world in an utterly forlorn condition, without any help whatever.

You cannot make Christ a worldling; do what you will with his character, twist it as you like, you must see that there is something unworldly, otherworldly, about him. So let it always be with his people.

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