DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Lord, help your poor children to be holy. Oh, keep us so if we are so; keep us even from stumbling, and present us faultless before your presence at last. We pray for friends that are ill, for many that are troubled because of the illness of others. We bring before you every case of trouble and trial known to us, and ask for your gracious intervention. We pray for your ministers everywhere; for your missionary servants. Remember brothers who are making great sacrifice out in the hot sun or in the cold and frozen north. Preserve those who for Christ’s sake carry their lives in their hands.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.” (1 Peter 1:14)
Men’s religion seems to hang loosely about them as if it did not fit them. The wonder is that it does not drop off from them. Men are so little braced up as to conscientious conviction and vigorous resolve that they easily go to pieces if assailed by error or temptation. Brace yourselves up; pull yourselves together; be firm, compact, consistent, determined. Do not be like quicksilver, which keeps on dissolving and running into fractions. Do not fritter away life upon trifles, but live to purpose, with undivided heart and decided resolution.
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