the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
Cleave to that which is good, Romans 13:9. Seek those things which are above. Colossians 3:1.
The manners of such things or persons as we frequently converse with, cleave very easily to us. If we converse much with God and heavenly things, we shall be heavenly minded: but if we deal much with the world and temporal things, we must be sensual and worldly-minded. Up, therefore, with thy heart to God. Lift it hourly up to him; and though it sinks down often to the earth again, yet the Lord has patience, and will as often receive and accept of it again. Therefore raise it up continually and take great care to keep it above, that it may not sink down and be defiled and cloyed with worldly things again. Thus it will be easy, whilst on the contrary it is a hard matter to abide in a spiritual frame, like a feather which easily rises higher and higher when kept above ground, but moves very heavy upwards, when once fallen into the dirt. This you may take as a lively figure of an easy and heavy method in the practice of religion. Choose, now, which you please.
O! that I may always choose the best; namely, the work and sufferings of the Lord, and never plunge myself into needless troubles and conflicts.
Descend from heaven, immortal Dove,
Stoop down and take us on thy wings,
And mount and bear us far above
The reach of these inferior things.
Beyond, beyond this lower sky,
Up where eternal ages roll,
Where solid pleasures never die,
And fruits immortal feasts the soul.
