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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning. Joel 2:12. If ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods from among you. 1 Samuel 7:3. Turn Thou me, and I shall be turned; for Thou art the Lord my God. Jeremiah 31:18.
There are many awakened souls, but few who are converted with all their heart. You have once heard the awakening voice and have been aroused from sleep; you have prayed and wept; you have been moved and comforted, and you have been very pious for some time; but your zeal and attachment to the Lord have abated. " In order to reassure yourself, you still continue in outward things, such as prayer, the reading of God’s Word, the singing of sacred songs and church going; but your heart clings to the world, to money, to honor among men. It is still given to anger or envy or other sinful inclinations and passions. The childlike intercourse with God has become strange and difficult. You have retained the old idols or you have taken them out again, given them a different coloring, or hung a different cloak about them. You are not converted. Make haste and be saved! Pray, "Turn Thou to me, Lord, and I shall be turned. " That you are in truth "turned" you will be able to determine from the fact that the living God or Christ dwells in your heart; that His mind is imprinted in your heart; that the idols of selfishness, sinful ambition, vainglory and covetousness, are overthrown; and that faith, love, humility, kindness, faithfulness, patience, as the true fruits of repentance, have succeeded them.
Though I have grieved Thy Spirit, Lord,
His help and comfort still afford;
And let me now come near Thy throne.
To plead the merits of Thy Son.
