Dear Friends,
For some of us life seems to be one great bundle of longings, some of
which we should be ashamed! We are so selfish. But today’s attached
devotional names a longing which should mark us all. God bless you.

Because of Calvary,
John Janney

• Psalm 119:39-40 (ESV)

  39 Turn away the reproach that I dread,
  for your rules are good.
  40 Behold, I long for your precepts;
  in your righteousness give me life!

“Some people, whom I know, long after the promises, and others long after the doctrines. I hope that they will all get an equal longing for the precepts, for true believers love the precepts as much as they love the promises or the doctrines: ‘Behold, I have longed after thy precepts.’” [Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit LII, (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1906), p. 144]