DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
And now, Lord, during the few days that remain to us here below, be it all our business to cry, “Behold the Lamb!” Oh! teach these hearts to be always conscious of your love; and then these lips, that they may share as best they can by your divine help the matchless story of the cross. Oh, help us to win many to Jesus; let us not be barren, but may we have to cry that we are the beloved of the Lord, and our offspring with us. May we have many spiritual offspring that shall go with us to the throne, that we may say before him, “I and the children that you have given me.”
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.” (Psalm 1:6)
The righteous carves his name upon the rock, but the wicked writes his remembrance in the sand. The righteous man plows the furrows of earth, and sows a harvest here, which shall never be fully reaped until he enters the enjoyments of eternity; but as for the wicked, he ploughs the sea, and though there may seem to be a shining trail behind his boat, yet the waves shall pass over it, and the place that knew him shall know him no more forever.
May the Lord cleanse our hearts and our ways, that we may escape the doom of the ungodly, and enjoy the blessedness of the righteous!
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