the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. 1 Corinthians 1:30-31. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. John 15:14.
If you are in Christ Jesus, Christ is in you; He belongs to you and you belong to Him. He who possesses Christ, let him hold that fast which he has, that no man take his crown (Revelation 3:11). "Whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance" (Matthew 13:12). If Christ has been "made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption" ( 1 Corinthians 1:30), then all His wisdom and righteousness, all His power to sanctify and redeem, is vouchsafed to us. Thus He belongs to us with all that He is and has. He is ours. What a word full of good fortune and of joy: He is ours! Could we receive anything more? No; certainly not. Now everything depends on whether we know how to value and make use of this great gift of the Father according to its great and infinite worth. If we do not prize it, it will be taken from us. Now everything depends on this, that we really allow ourselves to be made righteous, sanctified and redeemed. He is thereunto given to us and bestowed upon us. With that object in view, the hand of God gives Jesus to us. But then we must also receive Him from God’s hand and allow Him to do that work in us whereunto He is sent. We must bring as a sacrifice to Him our foolishness, our sinfulness, our unrighteousness, and whatever that keeps us bound and captive, allowing the Son to make us free, to redeem us. Then we are free indeed. Then Christ has been made all this to us, not only in the mind of God, but He is all this to us in reality. ’
Hosanna! blessed Jesus,
Come in our hearts to dwell.
And let our lives and voices
Thy praise and glory tell.
