the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
Trust ye not in lying words saying, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord are these; but thoroughly mend your ways and your doings. Jeremiah 7:4-5. Of true prayer and worship in spirit and truth. See also, John 4:24. Romans 12:1. James 1:27.
As a contrite heart is the most pleasing temple of God, so speaking with God, in words of our own, as a child does with his father, is the best book of prayer. The most cunning method, by which Satan deceives many now, is, the mistaking an extensive knowledge and assurance of their own making for true faith; or trusting on some outward forms of worship, sensible motives, or communing with others, and pretending too soon to evangelical experiences, liberties, and building of souls up. Though there was never a true change wrought in their own hearts. For what can all our reading, prayers, going to church, and sacrament profit us without this? Before all this shall be acceptable to the Lord, we must be renewed in our minds, and prove by our own works and deeds, that we are the living temples of God.
It is not towers of stone or wood,
Pillars or paintings, please our God;
Of living stones his church is built,
It was for souls Christ’s blood was spilt.
It is not any splendid house,
That Jesus calls his married spouse,
Believers, Oh, amazing love!
Tis you, the Lord, your husband prove.
