the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
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Finally, my brethren be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Ephesians 6:10. Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort. Thou hast given commandment to save me, for thou art my rock and my fortress. Psalms 71:2. See also, Psalms 31:1-6. For thou hast been a strength for the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm. Isaiah 25:4. Divine answer. There shall be a tabernacle for the shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain. Isaiah 4:6. See also, Zechariah 2:5.
This is to be understood of the wounds of Christ; therefore he says, " abide in me," which is done, when we have always such a penitent feeling of our sins, that thereby our hearts are evermore broken, humbled, and made desirous and able of being thoroughly healed by his stripes. Without this, the knowledge of Christ and his wounds, is to no purpose: dead, and like the water poured upon a hard stone.
Where shall I hide this guilty head?
Can rocks or mountains save?
Or shall I wrap me in the shade
Of midnight and the grave?
Is there no shelter from the eye
Of a revenging God?
Jesus, to thy dear wounds I fly,
Bedew me with thy blood.
Those guardian drops my soul secure,
And wash away my sin;
Eternal justice frowns no more,
And conscience smiles within.
