the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
All are yours; and ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s. 1 Corinthians 3:22-23. He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Romans 8:32. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 2 Peter 1:4;
Beloved, how rich we may be in Christ upon the slight condition that we flee from that which will soon leave us anyway, namely, ’the corruption" of the world. All things; all that God is and has; all that heaven and eternity contain, are yours. You shall possess and enjoy it all if you sever your heart completely from the world and deny its sensual pleasures. For both worlds, heaven and earth, God’s kingdom and the kingdom of this world, Christ and Belial, cannot remain side by side in your heart. If you desire to have all that God offers you in Christ, you must let go of all that the flesh, the world, and Satan offer you; they only offer; they give not what they offer, but they rob you of all before you have really grasped the offer before you have enjoyed it. But God makes you through Christ a partaker of His nature, His righteousness and holiness, salvation and glory. You shall be holy and blessed as He is holy and blessed; you shall reign with Him and rejoice with Him forever in heaven. Who can comprehend such love? Why does not all else become loathsome to us but God and His Word, in which such promises are held out to us? Who can believe in these promises and yet continue to conform himself to the world? continue to desire the enjoyment of the world? continue to cling with the heart to aught else but the greatest of all, which is his when he grasps it in faith and holds it fast with all his heart? Though no other word in the Scriptures could awaken us and convert us, this one word ’’all" ought to win us over to Christ and forever drive the world, the flesh and the devil out of our hearts and thoughts.
In the faith, O make me steadfast;
Let not Satan, death or shame
Of my confidence deprive me;
Lord, my refuge is Thy name.
When the flesh inclines to ill,
Let Thy Word prove stronger still.
