the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
Thou openest thy hand, and satisfieth the desire of every living thing, Psalms 145:16.
Who considers these words enough? The hand of God being my capital cellar and store-house, is it not a shame to be anxiously careful for any thing? Has the Lord all things in his hand? Then surely I shall receive what he has for me; none will be able to withhold it. Faith has always a free access to the treasures of God, who is never wanting.
" Christians as (Luther observes) have their chests, cellar, and treasures in such a high place, even in God, that no thief can rob them, and they are sure to have enough in God. And though the Lord should try them with want a little while, yet he relieves them in due time, their bread must rain from heaven, rather than that they should be left without. You need not, says Christ, seek these other things, straight they shall be brought to you, if you only abide in me. If this does not comfort and strengthen us, nothing else will. Now many rely on their full pockets and purses, but if they had true faith it would be equally the same, whether they had it in their fists and trunks already, or not; it would be enough, that they believed, and had it in God’s hand, purse, and chest. It is all one to believers, full purses or none. If the Lord is pleased to bestow some provision upon him, he blesses him for it, and is careful to apply it well. But if he thinks proper to deny it him, he is equally content and cheerful."
The Lord is good, the Lord is kind;
Great is his grace, his mercy sure;
And the whole race of man shall find
His truth from age to age endure.
