DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Oh, this wicked heart of ours! Does it not have enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark just fell into it, any one part of our bodies left to itself would dishonor Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.
We are altogether ashamed. Truly in us is fulfilled your own Word: “you will remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth again because of your disgrace” (Ezekiel 16:63). For your love to us has silenced us, that great love has hidden boasting from us; your great love, with which you loved us even when we were dead in trespasses and sins; your great love with which you love us still, despite our ill manners, our wanderings, our shortcomings, and our excesses.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“He is like a tree planted beside flowing streams that bears its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.” (Psalm 1:3)
The righteous man bears fruit in the proper season; not unseasonable graces, like untimely figs, which are never full-flavored. But the man who delights in God’s Word, being taught by it, brings forth patience in the time of suffering, faith in the day of trial, and holy joy in the hour of prosperity. Fruitfulness is an essential quality of a gracious man, and that fruitfulness should be seasonable.
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