the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment. Psalms 104:2. The light dwelleth with him. Daniel 2:22. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts. 2 Corinthians 4:6 That was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. John 1:9.
Only the Creator of light, from whom all light proceeds, because He is Himself pure light, can shed light in our soul, when it is dark within us. Spiritually we are the same as the world would be without the sun, without light. If the Sun of righteousness, Christ, does not rise in us, there is only darkness, death and coldness, unfruitfulness and dislike of all good, in us. As the physical sun must rise and give light each day if day shall not be buried in eternal night, so Christ, the Morning Star, must each morning anew appear and give us light throughout the day; and as there no longer must be night in the Christian for we are the children of the day, the night is past He must by night and by day be our Sun, our Light, and our Life. Ask yourself every morning, if the Morning Star has shined forth in your heart. Ask yourself every night if also the night is light, if the Lord is your Light, or if you walk in the shadow of death as the children of the night.
O Christ, our true and only light.
Illumine those who sit in night;
Let those afar now hear Thy voice,
And in Thy fold with us rejoice.
Fill with the radiance of Thy grace
The souls now lost in error’s maze;
And all, O Lord, whose secret minds,
Some dark delusion hurts and blinds.
