DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
We have to bring before you a great burden, and that is the godlessness of this present age. Wise men and men without knowledge do not seek after God.
O Lord, the multitude delight in sin. Drunkenness defiles our city, and filthy words are heard on every side. Do not show your wrath to this nation, we beseech you. It has been entrusted with wondrous privileges. Forgive it and have mercy upon its aggravated sin. Lay not its heavy responsibilities to its charge, but let this nation be saved. We pray for it, as we are in duty bound to do, and as our love constrains us to do.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“The earth has produced its harvest; God, our God, blesses us.” (Psalm 67:6)
Sin first laid a curse on the soil, and grace alone can remove it. Under tyrannical governments lands become unproductive, but, when the principles of true religion shall have elevated mankind, and the dominion of Jesus shall be universally acknowledged, the science of tillage shall be perfected, men shall be encouraged to labor, industry shall banish penury, and the soil shall be restored to more than its highest condition of fertility. There is certainly an intimate relation between moral and physical evil, and between spiritual and physical good.
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