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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)
God, we do not want to speak to you from a distance, nor stand trembling like Israel under the law at a distance from the burning mountain, for we have not come to Mount Sinai, but to Mount Zion, and that is a place for holy joy and thankfulness, not for terror and bondage. Blessed be your name, Lord! We have learned to call you “our Father in heaven,” so there is reverence, for you are in heaven; but there is sweet familiarity, for you are our Father. We draw very near to you now through Jesus Christ the mediator and we are made bold to speak to you as a man speaks with his friend, for you have said by your Spirit, “let us approach the throne of grace with boldness” (Hebrews 4:16).
If we remembered our sinfulness, it would be right to flee from your face. Lord, we do remember it with shame and sorrow; we are grieved to think we have offended you and neglected your sweet love and tender mercy for so long. But we have now returned to the “the Shepherd and Overseer of our souls” (1 Peter 2:25). Led by such grace, we look to him whom we crucified, and we have mourned for him and then have mourned for our sin.
Amen. <3