the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night. Consequently he never left them. Exodus 13:21. And the pillar of the cloud went from before their face and stood behind them: and it came between the Camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; which prevented the meeting of them. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand and on their left. Exodus 14:19-22. And all the Israelites passed over Jordan. Joshua 3:17. Therefore, we know that all things work together for good to them that love God. Romans 8:28.
We want daily, some sort or other of affliction, and burden, to serve us as rails, and walls, against the carnal wanderings of our hearts. Therefore, when we meet with distress, we must think it is the wall or burden for the day, to keep from swerving and falling into the snares of the enemy.
There is a land of pure delight
Where saints immortal reign,
Infinite day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.
But timorous mortals start and shrink,
To cross this narrow sea,
And linger, shivering on the brink.
And fear to launch away.
Could we but climb where Moses stood,
And view the landscape over,
Not Jordan’s streams, nor death’s cold floods,
Should fright us from the shore.
