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Morning Devotional

Walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.- Ephesians 5:15-16.

Light and life are communicated from Jesus to his members, not merely to fill their heads with gospel truths, as matters of speculation, or to make them fluent talkers about religion, but chiefly to affect their hearts, renew their minds, and cause them to be close, consistent WALKERS with Jesus. Without this, we only seem to be religious, and deceive our hearts, while our religion is vain: for we cannot stand approved in the sight of God, before men, nor to our own consciences. "The wise man’s eyes are in his head;" he looks around him and sees the evil of sin, the vanity of this present world-that its gay pleasures, alluring pastimes, bewitching diversions, are the gilded bait of the god of this world, whereby he ensnares unwary fools to kill their precious time, and to blind and destroy their immortal souls! The wise man looks above him- directs his eye of faith to his Saviour, as his example-to have his Spirit for his guide-to be kept by his power-to have his steps directed by his grace, that his word may be the rule of his life, and that his walk and conversation may please his Lord, and adorn his gospel. Without this constant circumspection, we betray the greatest folly, and make sad work for future grief and repentance. Lord keep us from this! Time is the gift of God. It is too precious a jewel to be worse than idly lavished away upon vanity. It is the wisdom of the wise to improve time to the noblest and best of purposes, in acquiring more knowledge of spiritual and eternal things. It is the foolishness of folly for God’s wise virgins, at any time, so to debase themselves, as to sacrifice their precious moments upon heathenish altars, devoted to vain delights and sinful pleasures. We dare not, we cannot comply with these things, consistent with faith in Jesus, love to God, and a good conscience in the Holy Ghost.

The days are evil; iniquity abounds; the love of many waxeth cold; heresies prevail; the way of holiness is awfully neglected; but the Lord’s arm is not shortened, that he cannot save: he can keep us close to himself, in the most perilous times. Constant watchfulness, and earnest prayer, are our daily duty-"Let us consider one another, to provoke unto love and to good works; not forsaking the assembling ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhort one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching."- Hebrews 10:24-25.

From precious faith a precious strife

Of precious virtues flow,

A precious heart, a precious life,

And precious duties too.

Wherever faith does justify,

It purifies the heart;

The pardon and the purity

Join hands, and never part.

Evening Devotional

Blessed is the man, to whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity. Psalms 32:2.

When the Spirit bears witness to the believing heart, thou art this blessed man, O! what a heavenly transport of love, peace, and joy abounds! Every believer in Christ is this blessed man, though all do not enjoy the sense of this blessedness. The law may charge sin upon the conscience, Satan may bring many accusations, and the trembling sinner may reckon many iniquities against himself, and be ready to rate himself a cursed man, when the Lord imputes not a single iniquity to him, and pronounces him blessed. Sight often opposes truth; sense prevails against faith. Hence, the soul is in fear and distress. What can one do in such seasons? Believe against sense, hope against hope. Oppose God’s declarations to nature’s feeling. Mind, it is not said, blessed is the man who hath no iniquity, but unto whom the Lord imputeth none. Well, but if I see, and know, and feel, that I have iniquity, surely the Lord will impute it to me, and charge it to my account. What! after God hath charged sin to thy surety’s account, reckoned with him for it, and received full satisfaction at his hands, will he charge it again to thee? No! God is just. He knows he imputed to, and laid upon his Son, the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53:6.) God made Christ to be sin for us, that we might be righteous in him. (2 Corinthians 5:21.) In him, O, blessed state! we stand righteous in Christ, are blessed in Christ. No iniquity is imputed to us; but the Lord imputeth righteousness without our works, (Romans 4:6.) This is the blessedness of faith. Every believer in Jesus is thus blessed. If the Lord impute no iniquity to him, who shall? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? O, believer! glory in thy blessedness, and give the Lord the glory of it! Nor sin, nor death, nor hell, shall rob thee of it in time, nor eternity. But if the Lord imputes no iniquity to thee, he hath also created a new spirit within thee, a spirit without guile, that is, upright with the Lord Jesus, that trusts in him, and cleaves to him only. Look at St. Paul: see the uprightness of his soul. He was like a chaste virgin to Christ. Imitate him. Propose what you would to him, but Christ; whether the pomps of the world, the pleasures of sin, the glory of self-righteousness, says he, away with it all; I renounce it all as dross and dung. God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Yea, doubtless, I count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. (Philippians 3:8.)

Tho’ sin infects our ruin’d race,

And seals us under wrath;

Yet God imputes, thro’ his rich grace,

Christ’s righteousness and death.

Thus are we bless’d, alone thro’ faith

Of Jesus crucify’d:

No sin will God impute, he saith,

To those for whom Christ died.

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