the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
And the multitude of all the nations shall be as a dream of a night vision. It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and behold, he is faint. Isaiah 29:7-8. Why sleep ye? rise and pray. Luke 22:46. The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. Psalms 14:2. The Lord is good unto them that wait for him. Lamentations 3:25.
False Christians, the only seemingly awakened, who walk in drowsy security and feed upon words and nourish themselves by thoughts and fancies, are like those who dream. If they once become frightened out of their sleep, they see at last and feel how empty, lean, and spiritless they have been. Learn to know yourself. Prove yourself to learn if you eat in a dream or in a wakeful condition; if you feed upon living words or only on mere dead letters. Living food nourishes and strengthens. Dream-food leaves the eater empty, powerless and as one dead. If you are such a secure and drowsy person who has been awakened, having the name of being wakeful, but yet sleep and only dream, then arise and hear the word of the Lord by which He awakened His drowsy disciples: look up to heaven. The Lord looks down from heaven to see if you are awake and seek Him. He is ready to answer you. He is good to all who earnestly inquire after deliverance and salvation. If your conscience is awakened, or if it sometime shall awake, then know that the Lord a long time has watched and waited for you; that He rejoices when you at last hunger for His salvation and long for the powerful food of the Word of Life. Despair not because of the time you have lost and dreamt away, but begin today to improve every moment; then salvation shall be yours.
Oh, yield Him all: in Him confide;
Where but with Him doth peace abide?
Break loose, let earthly bonds be riven.
And let the spirit rise to heaven!
