Pray with Spurgeon

Daily Newsletter from SpurgeonBooks

This week, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on trials and suffering.

I thought this was a fitting theme as we prepare to remember the suffering and death of Christ later week on Good Friday. Next week, we’ll highlight a different theme.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

O God, send new comfort where you have sent fresh grief. Deal graciously with us, O Lord, whatever our circumstances may be. It may be our trouble is not without, but within—“Some deep sense of sin renewed; This will work us lasting good” if we don’t carry it too far.

It may be that we have had great battles of late with Satan, with some old corruption. Make us victorious. It may be that some one of your promises, even, has been too great for us, and we have scarcely been able to believe it. O God, visit your people. What strange creatures we are! The little world within has its summer and its winter, its earthquakes, its tornadoes, its storms. Great Master, govern the world of our inner nature as you govern the world of nature, and may we conquer yet.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“One who is righteous has many adversities, but the LORD rescues him from them all.” (Psalm 34:19)

Scripture does not flatter us like the story books with the idea that goodness will secure us from trouble; on the contrary, we are again and again warned to expect tribulation while we are in this body. Our afflictions come from all points of the compass, and are as many and as tormenting as the mosquitoes of the tropics. It is the earthly portion of the elect to find thorns and briers growing in their pathway, yes, to lie down among them, finding their rest broken and disturbed by sorrow.

But, blessed but, how it takes the sting out of the previous sentence! “But the LORD rescues him from them all.” Through troops of ills, the Lord shall lead his redeemed scatheless and triumphant. There is an end to the believer’s affliction, and a joyful end too. None of his trials can hurt so much as a hair of his head, nor can the furnace hold him for a moment after the Lord bids him come forth of it. The same Lord who sends the afflictions will also recall them when his design is accomplished, but he will never allow the fiercest of them to rend and devour his beloved.

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