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The height of God’s love
🛐 Daily Prayer: "Gracious God, we praise you with our whole hearts for the wondrous revelation of your love in Christ Jesus our Lord."
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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
Gracious God, we praise you with our whole hearts for the wondrous revelation of your love in Christ Jesus our Lord. We think every day of his passion, for all our hope lies in his death: but as often as we think upon it, we are still filled with astonishment that you should so love the world as to give your only begotten Son.
Your grace has almost out-graced itself; your love has reached its height: love to rebels; such amazing love, that even your Son could not be spared. Oh God, we are afflicted in our hearts to think we do not love you more after such love as this.
Amen.
VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.” (Matthew 5:8)
When the heart is washed, the dirt is taken from the mental eyes. The heart that loves God is connected with an understanding that perceives God. There is no way of seeing God until the heart is renewed by sovereign grace. It is not greatness of intellect but purity of affection that enables us to see God.
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God’s grace for parents
God’s Word instructs parents, “Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they won’t become discouraged” (Colossians 3:21).
We do not rule over our children with domineering, iron fists. As a God-appointed authority over their lives, we must consistently expect obedience, but we do so in a gentle, non-exasperating, discouragement-avoiding way.
Easy to say. Harder to do.
Especially when disobedience is stubborn (and embarrassing).
How can we continually parent in this kind of gentle way?
By turning to the grace of God and the power of God.
We turn to the grace of God and remember that our God has been radically patient with us, so we must be patient with our children.
We turn to the power of God and remember that HE is able to save our children. Which is good news, because we aren’t able to. As you gently, patiently parent your children, remember that they will not be saved by your ability to muster up obedience, but by a faith-look at the Risen Savior.