the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. 2 Corinthians 5:19-21.
God so loved the world, the sinful, faithless, deeply fallen and ungrateful world, that He sacrificed for it His innocent, holy and righteous Son, as if the great and infamous sinner were dearer to Him than His most beloved Son. He who today sees the Son of God dying upon the cross for all sinners, slain for the dead, and does not learn to read the Holy Scriptures inviting all men to the great Supper, beseeching them, ’’Be ye reconciled to God! " he who does not learn to read this upon the cross, and does not here learn to understand and believe, will never learn. For that which even Moses realized and concerning which he said, ’ Truly the Lord loves the people," is here written in letters of flame; on the cross it is preached as loudly, intelligibly, and effectually as possible. Oh, may you all draw near to the cross of Christ on Golgotha! May you consider Him in the spirit, until that fulness of love by which God loved us in the death of His Son, shall have penetrated your heart, spirit and soul, marrow and bones, and your whole being; and you from your whole soul may say, ’We love Him because He loved us first. " Here words only are of no avail. You yourself must go to Golgotha; you must see the Son of love bleed upon the cross for you; you must tarry with Him, your eyes intently fixed upon Him. His blood, His death, His wounds, the bowing of His head, shall speak to you. Pay close attention, and let everything else in you keep silence.
O sacred Head, now wounded,
With grief and shame bowed down.
Now scornfully surrounded
With thorns Thy only crown!
O sacred Head, what glory.
What bliss, till now, was Thine!
Yet, though despised and gory;
I joy to call Thee mine.
