the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
There is none like unto thee, O Lord; thou art great, and thy name is great in might. Jeremiah 10:6. I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no Savior. Isaiah 43:11. And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. Isaiah 25:9.
Jesus is everything to us. He is altogether such a one as we sinful, weak and blind men are in need of. What He does for us, none else can do. The help, comfort, and grace; the life, peace and blessedness, which we find in Jesus, we seek in vain elsewhere. No man could find true peace and quiet for his soul; no man become pure and good; none stand before God in judgment; none entertain hope of a better life; none be saved; none comfort another; none expect any good for himself and those who are his, if Jesus were not the one He is, the Savior, the Redeemer, the one who blots out sin, the one who quickens the dead, our Light, our Truth, our Life, "whose name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace" (Isaiah 9:6). Where should the human flock find a shepherd who could see them all, find them all, feed, shield and protect them? Whence should come the sacrifice potent to blot out all sins and all guilt from Adam to the last one born of woman?
Where should that physician, that medicine, that fulness of Spirit, of power, of unction, be found, which is needed to heal all weakness, all vice, all the faults and diseases of the soul and make the whole man new? Where should that sea be discovered from which all human hearts, who need gladness and long for salvation, might draw and drink their fill? Who would have that patience, faithfulness, tenderness and love which is necessary to the awakening, conversion, enlightenment and sanctification of the weak creatures, not tiring of them, despairing of them or rejecting them? But now we have found Him, the Man who combines in Himself all this and more than human tongue can utter. Now we can say, as has been prophesied, ’’Lo, this is our God; we have waited for Him; and He will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation" (Isaiah 25:9).
He comes with succor speedy
To those who suffer wrong;
To help the poor and needy.
And bid the weak be strong;
To give them songs for sighing;
Their darkness turn to light.
Whose souls, condemned and dying.
Were precious in His sight.
