DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Lord, cure any of your chosen of self-righteousness; deliver them from any hope in their own abilities, but keep them low. Bring them out of any hope of salvation by their own prayers or their own repentance. Bring them to cast themselves upon your grace to be saved by trusting in Christ emancipate them from all observance of days, weeks, months, years, and things of human institution, and bring them into the glorious liberty of the children of God that your law may become their delight, may you yourself become their strength, their all, your Son become their joy and their crown. We do pray this with all our hearts.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Since you have purified yourselves by your obedience to the truth, so that you show sincere brotherly love for each other, from a pure heart love one another constantly,” (1 Peter 1:22)
See how this love of the brothers is linked to regeneration. The first time we are born, we are born in sin, and that tends to hate. But when we are born again, born unto God, our life tends to love. Peter wisely fetches his argument, not from the law, nor from nature, nor from philosophy, but from that high and divine nature that God has implanted in his people. Love each other with a pure heart fervently, for you have been born again, not with corruptible seed, but with incorruptible.
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