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Devotional: June 5th

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I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. 1 Chronicles 29:17. He is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. Proverbs 11:8. The Lord looks on the heart. 1 Samuel 16:7.

Since God cannot be deceived with a mere outward form, though ever so fine, it is an infallible proof of a sincere, real conversion, if a man has reformed only the grosser sins of his former life, much less if he only abstains from such things which by nature he is not so much inclined to: but if our hearts are changed, and especially in those things we have the strongest propensity to, this is an infallible evidence of a true conversion. For these inward capital enemies, the Lord, and all his upright followers attack most, before all the rest. But if thou wouldst give over that which is dearest to thee, thou must know and believe first, that Christ loves thee. These thoughts we must prosecute, though all other things should be forgotten.

Mistaken souls! that dream of heaven,
And make their empty boast
Of inward joys and sins forgiven,
While they are slaves to lust.

Vain are our fancies, airy flights,
If faith be cold and dead:
None but a living power unites
To Christ the living head.

’Tis faith that changes all the heart,
’Tis faith that works by love,
That bids all sinful joys depart,
And lifts the thoughts above.

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