the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. John 15:11; John 16:24. Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee. Psalms 116:7. And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost. Acts 13:52.
True joy and undisturbed, eternal peace enter the heart of man only when the Holy Ghost takes up His abode therein and the Lord Himself speaks to the heart. The ungodly and the unbelievers, the unconverted and the lukewarm Christians, have no peace and no pure, abiding joy. There is war and disturbance in every heart in which the God of peace does not dwell by faith in Christ. Even the believer has lost peace as soon as he departs from faith or falls into lukewarmness and drowsiness, and does not abide in Jesus but loses Him out of his sight and heart. Come, therefore, all ye hearts that seek peace and joy, come unto Jesus, the Prince of Peace; receive Him by faith lovingly into your hearts. He will build His tabernacle of peace there, will come in to you, and bring you pure joy. With Him, heaven alters your soul. As long as we live here below, this is a matter of uncertainty. We carry this treasure in a weak vessel of clay and we must be very watchful and faithful, lest we lose it. If the Lord withholds it from us with or without our own fault for a season and for wise purposes, we are not therefore to lose courage, but to enter only the more into our own heart and wait with all the more zeal before His door until He again takes pity on us.
Peace in our hearts, our evil thoughts assuaging,
Peace in Thy Church, where brothers are engaging,
Peace, when the world its busy war is waging.
Send us, O Savior.
