“How encouraging the thought of the Redeemer’s never-ceasing intercession is for us. When we pray, He pleads for us; and then we are not praying, He is advocating our cause, and by His supplications shielding us from unseen dangers…Little do we know of what we owe to our Savior’s prayers. When we reach the hill-tops of heaven, and look back upon all the ways in which the Lord our God has led us, how we shall praise Him who, before the eternal throne, undid the mischief which Satan was doing upon earth. How we shall thank Him because He never held His peace, but day and night pointed to the wounds upon His hands, and carried our names upon His breastplate!”
Charles Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, January 11