the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
Thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting. Isaiah 63:16. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Acts 4:12.
"Blessed be His glorious name" (Psalms 72:19). "Thy name is as ointment poured forth" (Song of Solomon 1:3). Oh, that He this day would pour forth all His ointment upon us that, throughout the whole year, we might walk in the fragrance of that anointing, in the sanctifying power of that holy name! Oh that the divine power of the Holy Ghost, with which He is anointed "without measure" (Psalms 45:8; John 3:34; Acts 10:38), might not only pour itself forth into our own hearts, but diffuse its life-giving incense over all the world, and not only to-day, but every day stream down upon us to fill, like spikenard, the whole house of our heart and life with its perfume! (John 12:3). He is Father; He is Redeemer, a fatherly Redeemer, and a redeeming Father. As such the ancients knew Him and named Him, rejoiced in Him, praised Him, and trusted in Him, before He was known and named to them as He is known and named to us: the glorious name Jesus Christ, God above all, blessed for ever. Should we not rejoice in Him, the cornerstone of our faith and life, our eternal hope, our love? His name is, indeed, a complete Bible, a book of God; a testament that contains old and new things; a depository in which all the treasures of God’s wisdom and knowledge lie hidden; God’s epistle that proclaims the whole plan of our salvation; a fountain, a well from which we may draw all we need for life and a God-like conversation. Let us enter the new year, confidently believing that everything in it shall prosper for us. Let us begin and end each day in the year, each hour in the day, with that name. Let us work and rest, watch and sleep, eat and drink, in that name. Let us do everything and suffer everything in that name. Let us abide in it forever. Amen!
Jesus! Name of wondrous love!
Name all other names above!
Name at which must every knee
Bow in deep humility.
Jesus! Only name that’s given
Under all the mighty heaven,
Whereby man, to sin enslaved,
Bursts his fetters, and is saved.
Jesus! Name of wondrous love!
Human name of Him above!
Pleading only this we flee,
Helpless, O our God, to Thee.
