the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
One thing is needful. And Mary has chosen that good part, which shall never be taken away from her. Luke 10:42.
We must not pretend to serve God with only going to church and doing other acts of outward devotion; whilst we are dead and cold, our religion is vain. Who first by faith, seeks grace from the words of Christ, like Mary, is served by Christ, and this constrains him to serve him and his neighbour readily again. It is almost impossible for such, to go on in haughtiness, envy, hatred, and disobedience. Grace and faith will resist it, and makes them lowly, gentle, willing, obedient, active, without relying on any works of their own.
He that obtains Christ, the one thing needful, receives with him all the rest, and has no more need to be troubled about many things. He being our all, we can always live happy, whereas the children of this world must always be cumbered and divided between fears and hopes about their fate. In vanity we shall never find this good part; neither is there any salvation in the works of the law. Faith alone takes hold of it. And whoever withdraws his heart and senses from the noise and bustle of this world, and quietly looks for salvation in the wounds of Christ, the blessed fountains of blood and water, will certainly find it his better part.
