Daily Devotionals

Golden Treasury

Devotional: March 13th

Seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Hebrews 12:1-2.

This sin is the old man, and consequently does not mean only that which is outwardly in the world, but which we carry about in our bosoms. According to St. Paul, and the whole tenor of the scripture, the Christian’s warfare consists in putting off the old, and putting on the new man. Therefore is it not a strange thing for Christians still to have conflicts? nay, their whole life is engaged therein; and he that has no experience of it, either is a very rash and ignorant man, or an indolent and slothful Christian.

Blest are the undefiled in heart.
Whose ways are right and clean;
Who never from thy law depart.
But fly from every sin.

Blest are the men that keep thy word,
And practice thy commands:
With their whole heart they seek the Lord,
And serve thee with their hands.

Great is their peace who love thy law,
How firm their souls abide;
Nor can a bold temptation draw
Their steady feet aside.

Then shall my heart have inward joy,
And keep my face from shame,
When all thy statues I obey
And honour all thy name.