DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
You first plucked us like brands out of the burning. We remember well when you drew us from a corrupt world, and from our own self-righteousness, and we came to Jesus. But you are drawing us still: we feel the sacred bands; we yield to them, glad to do so.
Lord, draw us this morning upward to yourself, nearer than ever. May we not be satisfied with those heights of devotion to which we have attained; but may we reach somewhat higher today.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want.” (Psalm 23:1)
Not only do I not want at the present moment, but I never shall want. I may sometimes foolishly fancy that I shall come to want, but I never shall as long as God provides for me. How could such a Shepherd as he is, almighty and all-sufficient, ever suffer one of his sheep to lack any good thing? No; “I shall not want.”
All the world beside may want, but I shall not while Jehovah is my Provider. Famine may be sore in the land; there may be neither dew nor rain, and even the brook Cherith may, at last, be dried up; but since “Jehovah is my Shepherd, I shall not want.”
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