the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. John 14:18. I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father. John 14:28.
What sacred and glorious promises our Savior has left us! How tenderly, kindly and comfortingly He speaks to His children and prepares them for the withdrawal of His visible presence! Blessed is the believing heart that takes the Savior at His word, and which comforts itself with His invisible presence, and trusts in that as if it saw Him. Should He withdraw Himself from such a child-like mind and not keep His precious word, who always rejoiced when He saw faith in His Word, if only as a mustard seed? Shall He rejoice only when men in faith receive of Him physical help, healing from their bodily weaknesses and diseases? Shall it not much sooner cause Him heavenly joy when we not only lay hold of His gifts, but of Himself in faith, when we take Him at the word, "I will come unto you;, I will not leave you comfortless;" when we consider this promise not as empty words, but as the truth, and we hold it fast as such? He who holds fast the word of Christ, holds Christ fast.
Lord, Thy word abideth.
And our footsteps guideth;
Who its truth believeth
Light and joy receiveth.
