the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
Forsake me not, O Lord, O my God, be not far from me. Divine answer. The mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that has mercy on thee. O thou afflicted tossed with tempests and not comforted, behold I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. Isaiah 54:10-15.
Such as never have been destitute of comfort, do not relish this word. O Lord, as thou hast once quickened me by it in great distress, I will henceforth, evermore take hold of it, and firmly believe, even without feeling, that thou wilt perform every thing punctually. Thou being my God, in covenant, wilt never forsake me, but order all things for my good; adorn, and carry me through, though all tempests should fall upon me, and every thing be dashed to pieces. This, thy faithfulness requires.
Firm as the word which prophets give,
Sweet words, on which believers live,
Each of them is the voice of God,
Who spoke and spread the skies abroad.
Oh! for a strong, a lasting faith,
To credit what the Almighty saith,
To embrace the message of his son,
And call the joys of heaven our own.
Then should the earth’s old pillars shake.
And all the wheels of nature break,
Our steady souls shall fear no more
Than solid rocks when billows roar.
