DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
What after all can there be to trouble the man whom God loves? Shall we not find even in your rod a sweetness, as Jonathan did, when he dipped his rod in the honey? Have you not said, “as many as I love I rebuke and chasten,” shall we not, therefore, take your rebukes and chastenings, and even rejoice in them, because therein the love of God is manifested toward us.
Are your dear children poor, or are they sick in body, or are they losing those they love, or is there yet a newly dug grave over which they could shed floods of tears? Oh, sweet love of God, comfort them.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.” (Psalm 23:2–3)
What a peerless Guide he is, since infallible wisdom is his! And how gracious and condescending it is, on his part, to go first in the way which he means us to take! David does not say, “He drives me;” but “He leads me.”
In each path, he is my Exemplar in every virtue, for he himself has endured all temptations that are incident to my life’s pathway; and, all the way, ‘he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness.
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