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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
Watch ye therefore and pray always. Luke 21:36. Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us. Hebrews 12:1.
The hearts of men are not like clocks, which only want to be wound up once a day; O no! The dulness and distraction is too great, which so easily besets us. We must lift them up many times a day, yea, watch continually to lay aside every weight. Our going out and coming in, nay, all things, even the very least, we must do with prayer, always strictly examining what is the will of the Lord; else, if they are done after our own will, they do not tend to the glory of God, and cannot be attended with his blessing. But if we earnestly strive against our own will in prayer, willingly suffering every hour what the Lord thinks proper to lay upon us, and will be ruled by his hints, and slight strokes of his rod, many heavy afflictions, scourges, and whips can be avoided; for the burdens which we bring upon ourselves by our own will and impatience, are always the heaviest. A Christian has daily his proper burden and affliction, like the clock its weights, by which the flesh is kept under, that the spirit can raise up. Therefore, when any thing comes cross, he looks upon it, as its weights for the day, to stir him up to the exercise of prayer and meditation of the word of God.
O Lord, grant that I may always bear thy easy yoke, and be never the cause of my distress and dulness.
Wait on the Lord, ye trembling saints,
And keep your courage up;
He’ll raise your spirit when it faints,
And far exceed your hope.
