Pray with Spurgeon: God, help me honor you with my whole life

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Shall we have the desire of our heart, when our heart finds all its desire in you? Oh blessed Lord, you do indeed meet them who work righteousness and rejoice in your ways. You fill your people with good things, so that their youth is renewed like the eagles’ (Psalm 103:5).

We pray, help us who know you, to glorify you. We have known you from our youth, some of us, and have we declared your wondrous works. Oh, may there never be in our heart, and above all may there never come from our lips, or in our life, anything that might dishonor you. Oh, let us die a thousand deaths, sooner than ever dishonor your hallowed name. This is dearer to us than the apple of our eye. We have loved the habitation of your house, and the place where your honor dwells. Gather not our soul with sinners, nor our lives with cruel men; but let us be helped, even to the end, to follow the Lamb wherever he goes, even if it be to Gethsemane and Calvary.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin.” (Hebrews 4:15)

Many men can be touched by the sorrow of another, but they are not touched with that sorrow. It is one thing to see pain but another thing to be touched with the feeling of it. Our pain, our depression, our trembling, our sensitiveness—Jesus was touched with these though he did not fall into the sin that so often comes of them. We must treasure this view of our Lord’s sympathy, for it may be a great support in the hour of agony and weakness.

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