DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
We cry to you that we may no more provoke you. We beg you rather to send the serpents among us than to let sin come among us. Oh, that we might have our eye always on the brazen serpent that heals all the bites of evil, but may we not look to sin nor love it. Let not the devices of Balaam and of Balak prevail against us, to lead your people away from their purity. Let us not be defiled with false doctrine or with unholy living, but may we walk as the separated people of God and keep ourselves unspotted from the world.
Lord, we would not grieve your Spirit. Oh! may we never vex you so as to lead you in your wrath to say, “They shall not enter into my rest.” Bear with us still for his dear sake whose blood is upon us. Bear with us still and send not the destroying angel as you did to Egypt, but again fulfill that promise of yours, “When I see the blood I will pass over you.”
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Pay homage to the Son or he will be angry and you will perish in your rebellion, for his anger may ignite at any moment. All who take refuge in him are happy.” (Psalm 2:12)
Note the benediction with which the Psalm closes:—“All who take refuge in him are happy.” Have we a share in this blessedness? Do we trust in him? Our faith may be as slender as a spider’s thread; but if it is real, we are in our measure blessed. The more we trust, the more fully shall we know this blessedness. We may therefore close the psalm with the prayer of the apostles, “Lord, increase our faith.”
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