the Fourth Week after Easter
Click to donate today!
Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
God he merciful to me a sinner, Luke 18:13. Look upon my affliction and my pain, and forgive all my sins, Psalms 25:18. Divine answer. The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, and of great mercy; the Lord is good to all, and his tender mercies are over all his works, Psalms 145:8-9. Therefore, my son, be of good cheer, thy sins are forgiven thee. Matthew 9:2.
Justification or remission of sins before the tribunal of God, and the comfortable assurance of it in the heart, do not always go together. The sentence of pardon may be passed, and the sense of it be wanting for a time, or consist only in some feeble glimpses now and then. The former is done all at once, in the most perfect manner. The latter is given by degrees, as far as believers are able to receive it. Therefore a penitent soul must converse much with the gospel, and pray continually for more light and a greater degree of faith and peace.
O God of mercy, hear my call;
My load of guilt remove.
Break down this separating wall,
That bars me from thy love.
Give me the presence of thy grace,
Then my rejoicing tongue
Shall speak around thy righteousness,
And make thy praise my song.
A soul oppressed with sin’s desert
My God will never despise,
A humble groan, a broken heart
Is our best sacrifice.
