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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Lord, you are a great sin-pardoning God. There is none like you, passing over transgression, iniquity, and sin; and, for Jesus’ sake, receiving the vilest of the vile to your bosom and casting out none that come to him; taking up even the blasphemer and the drunkard, yes, the very worst, and washing even these from their crimson sins, and making them whiter than newly-fallen snow.

O Lord, we sometimes wish that we could sing like the angels. Then would we praise you better. But as it is, human voices are all we have, but they shall be used to the praise of “free grace and dying love,” to which we owe all that we have, and all we ever hope to have.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.” (Colossians 2:14)

Perhaps someone says, “But, possibly, after all, he may bring the accusation up again. He may only have hidden it for a while, and laid it by that he may bring it out against me some other day; and when it is produced, some expert will examine it with his glass, and through all the blotting he will make out the original charge, and say, ‘This man was guilty of such-and-such crimes.’”

“No,” says Christ, “he shall not do that, for I will let you see where I put the handwriting. I will take it quite out of the way, but I will fasten it up where you can see it,”—“nailing it to his cross.” Ah, that is glorious! Just as Christ was fastened to the tree by those dreadful Roman nails, so has he nailed up all the sins of his people, and all that could be laid to their charge.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week we’re praying for the Baheng of China.

When a person dies, the Baheng think they need to leave a complicated series of offerings to bring the deceased to the “spiritual village” with their ancestors. They have never heard that Jesus has conquered death.

Pray that the Baheng would know that Christ has risen from the dead, so we have no reason to fear.

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