Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

This week, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on Jesus washing our feet.

Typically, the prayers in the newsletter are excerpts taken from several sources. This week, all of the prayers will come from one sermon on John 13. In the middle of this sermon, Spurgeon broke out in an extended prayer, praising the grace of Jesus for this act of humility. I found this prayer a few weeks ago and I’m thankful to share it with you now.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Lord! King! Master! God! Everlasting! Eternal! Almighty! King of Kings and Lord of Lords! Do you—do YOU wash my feet? You call the stars by their names, and they shine by your light. Constellations come forth in their season at your bidding. You guidest the North Star with his sons! The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours; you sit upon the circle of the heavens, and the inhabitants of the earth are like grasshoppers. You hold the waters in the hollow of your hand, you measure heaven with your hand; Lord, do you wash my feet?

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“He came to Simon Peter, who asked him, ‘Lord, are you going to wash my feet?’” (John 13:6)

Oh! think of this, you spiritual men; think, until your hearts melt with love. No one else could cleanse us. The infinite God must take away the infinite blackness and filth of his people’s sin! What a stoop this is! Let us lift up our eyes and wonder; let us lift up our voices and praise his name, that he should ever wash our feet.

It is not the part of a master to wash feet; it is servile, menial, humiliating work. Yet this, which was the lowest of all offices in the east, is that which the Savior undertakes—not in fiction and metaphor, but in reality, for every one of us.

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