DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
And now, most blessed Lord, look upon those who do not love you. O Redeemer, gaze upon them with your eyes that blaze like fire. Let them see how poorly they treat you. May they recognize the depths of their ingratitude, neglecting the blood of a savior, indifferent to the heart of a savior. Bring the careless and the godless to seek mercy. Let those who postpone matters of eternity realize that delaying the claims of Christ is treason against his majesty. O savior, send out your arrows and wound many, so that they may fall before you and cry out for mercy.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“… trespasses and sins in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now working in the disobedient.” (Ephesians 2:1–2)
He makes them to be his forge. There he blows his coals, there he fabricates his instruments. Do you not hear the noise of the infernal bellows when “the children of disobedience” swear, and use unclean language? Ah, such were some of us; but we are cleansed! The evil spirit has been driven out, and he no more works in us.
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