the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
The fashion of this world passes away. 1 Corinthians 7:31.
As long as we feed on the husks of the world, and are in love with it, we are neither willing nor able to taste the comforts of the love of God. But when sin and the world are become an abomination to us, and we strive to get rid of them, we are fit vessels to receive him: then we begin to hunger after him. And though we are chastened by the Lord, yet he is not angry with us, but does it to embitter sin and the world, more and more to us, and to make us loathe them, that we may not be condemned with the world.
Up to the fields where angels lie,
And living waters gently roll,
Fain would my thoughts leap out and fly,
But sin hangs heavy on my soul.
Thy wondrous blood, dear dying Christ,
Can make this world of guilt remove;
And thou canst bear me where thou fly’st
On thy kind wings, celestial dove.
O might I once mount up and see
The glories of the eternal skies,
What little things these worlds would be?
How despicable to my eyes!
Had I a glance of thee, my God,
Kingdoms and men would vanish soon,
Vanish as though I saw them not,
As a dim candle dies at noon.
Great All in All, eternal King,
Let me but view thy lovely face.
And all my powers shall bow and sing
Thine endless grandeur and thy grace.
