the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
What must I do to be saved? Divine answer. Believe in the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. Acts 16:31.
Faith is not a confidence of our own making, but it is God that works it in a contrite and repenting heart. This faith as Luther in his preface to the epistle to the Romans observes, purifies the heart, destroys the old Adam, overcomes the world, engenders us anew, and changes us in heart, mind, and all the powers and faculties of the soul; which is the true protestant faith, and not that we only think and say, I believe. By this we must try our faith. All true believers have received it under a sense of our holy contrition, sorrow, and terrors. If we feel something of this, and apply to Christ by prayer, for faith and grace, we have a sure mark for faith already: for if we did not believe, we would not pray. And he that daily cleanses himself in the blood of Christ, has true faith and hope already, though he is but weak, and does not taste any joy.
Ye dying souls that sit
In darkness and distress.
Look from the borders of the pit.
To Christ’s recovering grace.
Sinners shall hear his sound;
Their thankful tongues shall own,
Their righteousness and strength is found
In Christ, the Lord, alone.
In him shallIsrael trust,
And see their guilt forgiven:
God will pronounce the sinners just,
And take the saints to heaven.
