DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
We shall never be satisfied till we wake up in Christ’s likeness, the likeness of perfection itself. Oh, bring us to this, we ask you. May experience teach us more and more how to avoid occasions of sin. May we grow more watchful; may we have a greater supremacy over our own spirit; may we be able to control ourselves under all circumstances, and so act that if the Master were to come at any moment we should not be ashamed to give our account into his hands.
Lord, we are not what we want to be. This is our sorrow. Oh, that you would, by your Spirit, help us in all walks of life to adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things. As men of business, as workpeople, as parents, as children, as servants, as masters, whatever we may be, may we be such that Christ may look upon us with pleasure. May his joy be in us, for then only can our joy be full.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the ordinances of the LORD are reliable and altogether righteous.” (Psalm 19:9)
Filth brings decay but purity is the great foe of corruption. The grace of God in the heart being a pure principle is also an abiding and incorruptible principle, which may be crushed for a time, but cannot be utterly destroyed. Both in the Word and in the heart, when the Lord writes, he says with Pilate, “What I have written, I have written;” he will make no erasures himself, much less suffer others to do so.
When the governments of nations are shaken with revolution, and ancient constitutions are being repealed, it is comforting to know that the throne of God is unshaken, and his law unaltered.
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