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John Gossner's Treasury
Devotional: January 15th

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My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. Psalms 5:3. For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory; no good things will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. Psalms 84:11. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing is his wings. Malachi 4:2.

Early in the morning, in your youth, you should consecrate yourself to the Lord, and each day, early, lift yourself unto Him. You can never come too early unto Him. He is up and about before you are, to hear your voice and to join His heart with your heart. The earlier and the heartier you seek His face in the morning, the more gloriously and the more powerfully will He arise as your sun and appear as your shield, dispel night and darkness from your soul, and make your heart fruitful in faith and charity. The gardeners usually expose their plants and herbs to the morning sun. Permit the Sun of righteousness, which daily arises for you, to shine down into the garden of your soul. May you early accept his salutary and exhilarating rays in your heart! The sun arises every day without any effort on your part. It passes over you and your garden without your guiding it. You need only to open your heart; at least, do not close it, but with an open and yearning heart expose yourself to its influence and it shall enlighten, revive and illumine you. That which especially is delightful in regard to this Sun of the souls is that he never sets and that at all seasons of the year he shines equally warm and clear; in the North as well as in the South; in the winter as well as in the summer. He knows of no setting and of no clouds; for although there are such and they hide the sun from you, yet the mists ascend solely from your own marshes. He who never takes his eyes from the Sun, will never be forsaken by him.

Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear.

It is not night if Thou be near;

O may no earth-born cloud arise

To hide Thee from Thy servant’s eyes.

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