DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
We pray for more love. We have expressed our love, but we are ashamed when we have done so, because, after all, what is our love? It is so faint, so cold to you, compared with your love to us. So we would adore you this morning for the love which you have manifested to us. You loved us before the foundation of the world: yours is no new compassion; for whom you foreknow, you predestined to be conformed to the image of your Son, out of your own pure love to them: and because you have loved us with an everlasting love, therefore with lovingkindness have you drawn us, and we feel the drawings now.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“The Lord is my Shepherd.” (Psalm 23:1)
What a precious title the psalmist used in speaking of his God! It is right to call the Lord a Shepherd. “The Shepherd of Israel” is a very blessed and true title for him; but “my Shepherd” is best of all. I wish, beloved, that each of you could truthfully say, with David, “‘The Lord is my Shepherd.’ He owns me; and as I am his property, he will preserve me, protect me, provide for me, guide me, and be everything to my weakness, and folly, and necessity, that a shepherd is to a sheep.”
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