God is more worthy of our love than anyone

🛐 Daily Prayer: "We cannot gaze into Jesus’ right royal face, without feeling our heart melt at the very sight of him."

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SpurgeonBooks
February 13, 2025

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Oh Lord, it has seemed to us impossible not to love you for you are so supremely lovable, so full of goodness, so perfect. You have revealed yourself to us as love and shall not love go out towards love? We feel our hearts warmed towards you in the person of your dear Son. Surely we cannot see him made our brother, bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh, sympathizing with us, married to us, dead for us and risen again for us—we cannot gaze into his right royal face, without feeling our heart melt at the very sight of him. Oh Jesus, we love you—we are yours and you are ours. You have given yourself to us as well as for us; and now we cheerfully give ourselves back to you, feeling that we are never so much our own as when we are yours; that indeed we are not ourselves until we are lost in you; but that then we have found our truest manhood, when it and all else is surrendered to the all-conquering power of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“For this is what love for God is: to keep his commands. And his commands are not a burden
” (1 John 5:3)

Though the keeping of the commandments does not make me a child of God, yet, being a child of God, I shall be obedient to my heavenly Father. But I cannot be obedient unless I love God. A mere external obedience, a decent formal recognition of the laws of God, is not obedience in God’s sight. He abhors the sacrifice where the heart is not found. I must obey because I love, or else I have not obeyed at all in spirit and in truth. See then, that to produce the indispensable fruits of saving faith, there must be love for God. Without it, they would be unreal and indeed impossible.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Razihi of Yemen.

The Razihi do not have the Bible in their language.

Pray that qualified and faithful Bible translators would bring God’s Word to the Razihi.

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