DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Now we come back to a theme that still seems to engross our desires. Oh, that Christ might come. Oh, that his word might be made known to the uttermost ends of the earth! Lord, they die, they perish, they pass away by multitudes! Every time the sun rises and sets they pass away! Make no delay, we beg you. Give wings to the feet of your messengers and fire to their mouths, that they may proclaim the Word with swiftness and might like the Day of Pentecost. Oh, that your kingdom might come, and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, for yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (1 Peter 1:3)
We are born again, and by that means we are delivered from the power of corruption. The new nature having no depravity in it, nor tendency to sin, it “is not able to sin” because it “is fathered by God” (1 John 3:9). The moment the heavenly life is implanted it begins to war with the old nature and continues to struggle violently with it. There is a deadly enmity between the two; the new nature will never be reconciled to the old or the old one to the new, but the new will conquer and overcome the evil.
Who can estimate the privilege of receiving a heaven-born nature that, however weak and feeble it may be at first, is ever-living, and by the power of God will gain the ultimate victory?
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