DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Our Father, we ask whether you have anything against us as your children. Have we been asking somewhat of you wrongly, and have you given us that which we have sought? We are not conscious of it, but it may be so; and now we are brought, as an answer to our presumptuous prayers, into a more difficult position than the one we occupied before.
It may be that some creature comfort is nearer to us than our God. We were better off without it, and have dwelt in God, and have found our joy in him. But now, Lord, in these perilous circumstances, give us grace that we may not turn away from you.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY
“For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of what is preached.” (1 Corinthians 1:21)
God, in his infinite wisdom, raised up a number of philosophers just about the time of the coming of Christ, and a little before that great event. If ever there were great minds upon the earth, it was then; yet these men, with all their schools of thought, knew not God, and the people did not follow after them so that the earthly wisdom turned out to be a failure.
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