Verse of the Day and Prayer by Spurgeon 2/10/2025

This week, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on our love for God. I thought this would be an appropriate theme for the week of Valentine’s Day. As our culture fixates our shallow expressions of love, let us cultivate deep love for Christ in our hearts.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“He said to him, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and most important command.’” (Matthew 22:37–38)

Who can render to God this perfect love? None of our fallen race. Salvation by the works of the law is clearly an impossibility, for we cannot obey even the first commandment. There is one who has obeyed it and the obedience of Christ is reckoned as the obedience of all who trust him. Being free from legal condemnation, we always seek after obedience to this “greatest and most important command” by the power of the Holy Spirit who dwells within us.

 

DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

We bring our hearts to you, full of love for you for what you have done; full of gratitude, full of faith, full of hope, full of joy. We feel glad in the Lord. But we do confess that if there be anything acceptable in our offerings, it was given to us from you first. No praise comes from us until first it is wrought in us. Well may we lay those fruits at your feet that were grown in your garden, and that gold and silver and frankincense which you yourself bestowed; only first give us more! We long to love the Savior with a passion that can never cool! Oh, to believe in God with a confidence that can never stagger! Oh, to hope in God with an expectation that can never be dim! Oh, to delight in God with a holy overflowing rejoicing that can never be stopped so that we might live to glorify God as well as we are able, living with enthusiasm—burning, blazing, being consumed with the indwelling God who works all things in us according to his will. Amen.

About the Author:

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (June 19th 1834 – January 31st 1892) was an English Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, to some of whom he is known as the “Prince of Preachers.” He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day.