DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
We beg you to look down upon your children, and cheer us. Lord, lift us up. Come, Holy Spirit, like a fresh, bracing wind, and let our spirit, through your Spirit, rise upward toward God.
May the Lord pour out his Spirit upon us that every chamber of our nature may be sweetened and perfumed with the indwelling of God, until our imagination shall only delight in things chaste and pure; until our memory shall cast out the vile stuff from the dark chambers; until we shall expect and long for heavenly things, and our treasure shall all be in heaven and our heart be there. Take our highest manhood, Lord, and saturate it in your love, till like Gideon’s fleece it is filled with dew, very lock and every single fleck of it, not a single portion of it left unmoistened by the dew from heaven.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“The one enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord ridicules them.” (Psalm 2:4)
What will the King do unto the men who reject his only-begotten Son, the heir of all things?
Mark the quiet dignity of the omnipotent one, and the contempt which he pours upon the princes and their raging people. He has not taken the trouble to rise up and do battle with them—he despises them, he knows how absurd, how irrational, how futile are their attempts against him—he therefore laughs at them.
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