DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Most glorious Lord God, it is marvelous in our eyes that God should become incarnate, that your Son should take our flesh upon himself. It surprises us greatly that the Lord of Life should condescend to die, and that the incorruptible One should be laid in the grave. We are full of loving gratitude, we are also full of adoring wonder.
When we have stood at the sepulcher and looked into it, and thought of Jesus having lain there, when we have seen it open and knew that it was empty, we bless your name that even he died and was buried, and magnify you that his is risen again from the dead.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.” (Psalm 23:4)
To see your scepter, and even to feel your chastising rod; to know that you are a King, and that you rule over Israel; to know that, as a Shepherd, you carry a crook to guide your flock; shall be enough to comfort my heart, and to sustain my spirit.
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