DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Will you glorify yourself, great Father, by making us more holy? Purge us every day from the selfishness that clings to us. Deliver us also from the fear of man, from the love of approbation so far as these might lead us astray. Help us to be resolute and self-contained to do, and think, and speak the right at all times. Give us great love to our fellow men. May we love them so that we could die for them if need be.
Above all, blessed Jesus, our Redeemer, let your love to us fire us with love to you. Stamp your dear image on our hearts, and let us never wander from the path of complete obedience to your will. Here we stand, asking to be washed again in the open fountain that every sin may be put away; but also begging to be washed in the water “from the riven side that flows,” that every wrong desire, every base aspiration, everything contrary to the mind of God may be utterly taken away from us.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves. Everyone should look not to his own interests, but rather to the interests of others.” (Philippians 2:3–4)
Do not obey the world’s maxim, “Take care of Number One.” Have a large heart, so that, though you care for yourself in spiritual things, and desire your own soul-prosperity, you may have the same desire for every other Christian man or woman.
The apostle knew that, to create concord, you need first to beget lowliness of mind. Men do not quarrel when their ambitions have come to an end. When each one is willing to be least, when everyone desires to place his fellows higher than himself, there is an end to party spirit; schisms and divisions are all passed away.
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