DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Lord, we are very weak, and in ourselves we have no desire to be otherwise, because when we are weak, then are we strong (2 Corinthians 12:9); but we are very strong in you, and we do wish to have faith to perceive this.
Lord, some of you children think that you are weak because they are; and suppose that grace will fail them because the flesh does: but oh, teach them better, and may they know that it is just in the death of the creature, that they shall find the life of God revealed.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil…” (Psalm 23:2–3)
Not only shall there be no evil, but I will fear none. A sense of the Lord’s presence lifts a Christian above even fear. You know how often it is true that we “feel a thousand deaths in fearing one.” But if we have a sense of our Savior’s presence, when we do really walk through the valley of death-shade, not a trace of fear shall come across our peaceful souls.
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