DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
O God, you are our exceeding joy. The very singing of your praises lifts our heart upward: when we can join in the solemn psalm or the sacred hymn, our heart leaps within us. And when your name is glorified, when we see sinners glorifying the name of Jesus, when we look forward to the brighter days when myriads shall flock to the Crucified: above all, when we contemplate his final triumph, then is our heart very restful, and our spirit rejoices in God our Savior.
What a fountain of delight you are, and how richly have you promised to bless the men that delight themselves in God. You have said, “Delight yourself also in the Lord, and he shall give you the desire of thine heart” (Psalm 37:4). Do you reward us for being delighted? Oh, pleasant duty, which is attached to such a wonderful promise.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you your heart’s desires.” (Psalm 37:4)
Make the Lord the joy and rejoicing of your spirit. Bad men delight in carnal objects; do not envy them if they are allowed to take their fill in such vain idols; look to a better delight, and fill yourself to the full with your more sublime portion. In a certain sense imitate the wicked; they delight in their portion—take care to delight in yours, and so far from envying you will pity them.
There is no room for fretting if we remember that God is ours, but there is every incentive to sacred enjoyment of the most elevated and ecstatic kind. Every name, attribute, word, or deed of the Lord, should be delightful to us, and in meditating thereon our soul should be as glad as is the epicure who feeds delicately with a profound relish for his dainties.
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