DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
We cry out to you to be delivered from the power of sin, to be delivered from the power of temptation without, but especially from indwelling sin within.
Lord purify us in head, heart and hand; and if it is necessary that we should be put into the fire to be refined as silver is refined, we would even welcome the fire if we may be rid of the dross. Lord save us from constitutional sin, from sins of temperament, from sins of our surroundings. Save us from ourselves in every shape, and grant us especially to have the light of love strong within us.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“You rejoice in this, even though now for a short time, if necessary, you suffer grief in various trials” (1 Peter 1:6)
Even when the Christian is most “distressed by various trials,” what a mercy it is that he can know that he is still elect of God! Any man who is assured that God has “foreknown before the foundation of the world” (1 Pet 1:20) may well say, “We rejoice greatly.” Let me be lying upon a bed of sickness and just revel in that one thought. Before God made the heavens and the earth and laid the pillars of the firmament in their golden sockets, he set his love upon me. Upon the breast of the great high priest he wrote my name, and in his everlasting book it stands, never to be erased—elect “according to the foreknowledge of God.” Why, this may make a man’s soul leap within him, and all the heaviness that the infirmities of the flesh may lay upon him shall be as nothing.
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God’s love is an ocean. Dive in with Spurgeon.
A major theme in Spurgeon’s preaching (and all of Scripture!) is the incomparable love of God. God’s love provides for us, serves us, helps us, forgives us. God’s love, seen supremely at the cross of Christ, is our only hope in life and death. It’s important that we continually remember and reflect on the greatness of God’s love.
To help you continue to enjoy God’s love, I put together a new book, Spurgeon on God’s Love. This book compiles twelve sermons by Spurgeon, all reflecting on the glorious reality of God’s unchanging love.
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I hope you’ll grab a copy for yourself (and another one for a friend!) and reflect on God’s love in your summer reading.