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Spiritual Treasury For The Children of God
Devotional: October 2nd

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Morning Devotional

At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.- John 14:20.

"To every thing there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the heaven." "God hath made every thing beautiful in his time."- Ecclesiastes 3:1; Ecclesiastes 3:11. In the beginning of time God created all things by Jesus Christ. In the fulness of time the Son of God was made flesh, dwelt among us for a time, and at the end of it finished salvation for lost sinners. The man Jesus ever lives in glory, and therefore his members must be made spiritually alive upon earth; to him they must all be gathered. There is a day of grace appointed them: a time, a set time to favor them.- Psalms 110:3. A day of power, wherein they are made willing to come to Jesus, and choose him for their only Saviour, and trust in him as their only hope and their all. Various are the spiritual statutes of God’s children. Different are their degrees of light, faith, knowledge, and love. As in the creation of nature, in the first day’s work light was produced, perhaps small and glimmering; but that glorious luminary the sun, was not until the fourth day: so is it in the new creation of souls. Our Lord’s first disciples had light enough to see him as the true Messiah, to come to him, and follow him; yet it is amazing to read how dark and confused their minds were about many things which concerned his person, sufferings, and kingdom; it is just the same now. Many are his sincere disciples, but are very weak in faith; know very little of this great mystery, that Christ and his Father are one, that Christ is in the Father, that they are in Christ and that Christ is in them. Hence they are often sadly perplexed and harassed in their minds with doubts and fears.

Still they cleave to Jesus; they love to hear of his precious name and glorious salvation; their hearts can be satisfied with nothing else. Hence it is plain the light hath shined, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon them; but they must follow on to know the Lord. There shall be a day of Pentecost, a day of meridian light, wherein they shall know even as they are known-assuredly know that there is a mutual indwelling of "Christ in them, and they in Christ, and the Spirit will bear witness to their spirits, that they are the children of God."- Romans 8:16. Most sweetly says Mr. Rutherford, ’I am sure my well beloved is God. And when I say Christ is God, and my Christ is God, I have said all things; I can say no more. I would I could build as much on this, MY CHRIST IS GOD, as it would bear; I might lay all the world on it.’-’I will have nothing to do with an absolute God,’ says Luther.

Evening Devotional

He wist not that the LORD was departed from him. Judges 16:20.

What do I read? Sampson’s name enrolled in the list of the ancient heroes of faith? Hebrews 11:32. What! he who loved a harlot, and was so blinded by his lust, as to bring on himself the most dreadful evils, even unto death? Yes. Grace reigned then. It reigns still, through the righteousness of Christ unto sinners. What! That they should continue in sin, because grace abounds? God forbid! See the most awful evils it brought upon this man of God. Behold in him how sin blinds the eyes, hardens the heart, and stupefies the conscience. Think of this, and tremble at the first approach of sin and lust. (1st.) Sampson’s lust to a vile, unchaste woman, had so blinded his reason, that he put his life into her hands three times. Yet he could not see that she had no regard for him, but only wanted to destroy him. Here was a judgment upon his sinful passions. The Philistines put out his eyes. (2d.) As he was fettered by his sin, a slave to his inordinate concupiscence, and did the devil’s drudgery; the Philistines fettered him, put him into the prison-house, and there made him grind. (3d.) The Lord, who is of purer eyes than to behold sin, added this judgment to the others, he departed from him. But Sampson knew it not. Hence, observe, (1st.) That God doth not wink and connive at sin in his people; but he will most assuredly punish them for it. (2d.) That the Lord may depart from a soul, and he not be immediately sensible of it. But when, like Sampson, he awakes out of his sleep, and says, “I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself,” O alas! he finds his spiritual power and strength gone. No sweet communion with his dear Lord as heretofore. No precious assistance from his Spirit. No inward testimonies of his love, and gentle whispers of peace to his soul. He prays, but it is with the lips only. The power of prayer is departed from the heart. He goes from ordinance to ordinance, but he finds not his Lord in them. All is dry formality, dreary and uncomfortable. But, O joyful! Sampson’s locks began to grow again. The Spirit of the Lord returned to him once more. He prays “O Lord God, remember me and strengthen me, that I may be avenged on the Philistines for my two eyes.” “Lord remember me,” was the thief’s prayer on the cross. Never forget the gracious answer. If you can but find a heart to pray to Jesus, to be revenged upon your cursed lusts, he saith, “Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliding,” Jeremiah 3:22.

The Lord still waits to shew his grace,

And save returning souls from hell:

Tho’ we offend him to his face,

God’s love in Christ’s immutable.

Tis this revives the dying spark

Of hope in a poor sinner’s heart,

Turns him from sin’s most cursed work

To Jesus, for his promis’d rest.

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