the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
And my people are bent to backsliding from me. Hosea 11:7. Bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors. Isaiah 46:8. And when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. Daniel 12:7.
The dispersion of the people of Israel is an illustration of all dispersed souls that are driven out of the promised land of peace, who wander about excluded from their own, without temple and without sanctuary, without High Priest and without sacrifice, and without their King. They seek rest but find it not. But if they return from their backslidings and seek the Savior in the sanctuary, all that they have been promised will be fulfilled and accomplished. The Lord will dwell in them. Do not lose sight of this sign, ye who search the times; do not make a miscalculation with many figures. One thing only is needful. Bring all your figures to this One and remain with Him; then the day has already dawned in you and you will not miss that which is to come. He who is not faithful in things present, who shall give him the things to come? He who does not use with heart and soul that which he has, who will give him that which is to come? That which he has is taken from him. Indifferent sanctimonious talk without sincerity of heart, drives away the Spirit of grace. He always withdraws when we do not show reverence in dealing with sacred things, when we only talk about what we ought to do, and not doing His will.
When all with awe shall stand around
To hear their doom allotted,
O may my worthless name be found
In the Lamb’s book emblotted!
Grant me a firm, unshaken faith;
For Thou, my Savior, by Thy death.
Hast purchased my salvation.
