the Third Week after Easter
Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
Let us not he weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good. Galatians 6:9.
Riches and goods are not given unto us to heap them up, to take delight in the counting of them, and to sully both hands and hearts at once with the same. In telling our money we might well pray, Lord keep me from covetousness, teach me so to reckon my money in faith as never to besmear my heart, as it does my fingers, and make me wise and willing to do good in time, that I may improve all opportunities and gifts, to the best and eternal purposes; and may not neglect or misapply any. What more precious in the whole universe than time? Every minute is a part of eternity, which if well spent, brings a glorious fruit in heaven. It is a thousand pities that they should often so shamefully be trifled away, or not redeemed enough to the sowing of a good seed for eternity.
O, the dreadful loss of so many precious hours, of which we cannot reap a blessed fruit in the world to come!
Life is the time that God hath given
To escape from hell and fly to heaven,
The day of grace, and mortals may
Secure the blessings of the day.
Then what my thoughts design to do,
My hands, with all your might pursue,
Since no device, nor work is found,
Nor faith, nor hope, beneath the ground.
