DAILY PRAYER
As you have commanded us to pray for all men (1 Timothy 2:1–4), so do we now especially pray for our beloved country. May every blessing rest upon our country. Upon our leaders, let your mercies always descend.
Keep this land in peace we beseech you; and as for all other lands, may peace yet reign. May oppression in every place be broken to small pieces, and may truth and righteousness win the day.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY
“Submit to every human authority because of the Lord, whether to the emperor as the supreme authority or to governors as those sent out by him to punish those who do what is evil and to praise those who do what is good. ” (1 Peter 2:13–14)
You are not to be disturbers of the peace; you Christian people are to cultivate the spirit of reconciliation wherever you dwell, submitting yourselves, “for the Lord’s sake,” even to some things which you do not like.
In Peter’s day, the king was a poor creature, and something worse than that. Indeed, I might say of the bulk of the Emperors of Rome, who were the chief “kings” of that day, that they were monsters of iniquity; yet the office was to be respected even when the man who occupied it could not be; much more should it be respected when the occupant is what a true “king” should be.
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