DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Our Father, we are exceedingly weak. Most of all, we are wicked when left to ourselves, and we easily fall prey to the enemy. Therefore, help us. We confess that sometimes, even in prayer when we are closest to you, evil thoughts or wicked desires intrude upon us. Oh, what poor simpletons we are. Lord, help us. We feel compelled to draw even nearer to you now, to hide under the shadow of your wings. We wish to be completely lost in God. We pray that you may live in us, that we may no longer live, but Christ may live in us, revealing himself through us.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Righteous Father, the world has not known you. However, I have known you, and they have known that you sent me. I made your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them and I may be in them.” (John 17:25–26)
At this point, the doctrine becomes a matter of experience. May we never be at rest until we fully experience it—that the very love God bestows upon Christ may be found in our hearts, poured out by the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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