the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
How often would I have gathered thy children together, and ye would not! Matthew 23:37. For, who has believed our report? Isaiah 53:1,
How often does God allure thee by his word and many agreeable and disagreeable providences, but thou dost not feel it, or hast a thousand excuses, though before God, they are all vain, and will stand thee in no stead. The true reason is because thou wilt not, therefore thou canst not. Thou dost not follow the word of God; hence comes that great darkness and offence at God and his children.
O Lord, cast out that evil spirit of slandering and lying, that I may never be offended at thee, but be entirely reconciled to all thy ways, that my heart may be won over to thee, and stirred up to incessant thanksgiving and praise.
O good Lord deliver me from all the powers of darkness, and suffer nothing to abide in me, which can in any wise hurt me. Amen
O that thy statues every hour
Might dwell upon my mind!
Thence I derive a quickening power.
And daily peace I find.
To meditate thy precepts, Lord,
Shall be my sweet employ:
My soul shall never forget thy word,
Thy word is all my joy.
How would I run in thy commands,
If thou my heart discharge
From sin and Satan’s hateful chains,
And set my feet at large!
Depart from me, ye wicked race,
Whose hands and hearts are ill
I love my God, I love his ways,
And must obey his will.
