Daily Devotionals

John Gossner's Treasury

Devotional: October 11th

Fear not, neither be thou dismayed. Joshua 8:1. And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness. Psalms 9:8. Great is our Lord and of great power: his understanding is infinite. Psalms 147:5. The daughters of Judah rejoiced, because of thy Judgments, O Lord. Psalms 97:8.

He who fears has forgotten that God is with him, that God directs all things, that not a hair can fall from his head without the will of the Father. Fear has its origin in ignorance or in forgetfulness of God, of the Savior, who has promised to be with us always, even unto the end of the world. He who knows Jesus and believes in Him, who knows and believes in His divine attributes, His wisdom. His omnipotence, His love, His patience, and His omnipresence; who never forgets that he has an almighty, all-wise, all-good and merciful God and Savior at his side, who hears him before he cries, and who has assured us that He Himself will dwell in us, cannot fear, no matter how matters turn, though it seems that God does not exist, that no God of wisdom and of love rules the world. He rules nevertheless; but His thoughts and ways are not our thoughts and ways. "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:8-9). Faith which lays hold of and holds fast that omnipotence and love that is ever near him, stands without fear and terror. Faith is full of praise and adoration, and rejoices in the most wise and loving reign of God. If faith is unable to comprehend how He reigns, as God seemed to David, and has ever seemed to all the friends of God, incomprehensible, nevertheless adorable, yet faith rests trustingly in the arms of that Father, whose love governs all things righteously and wonderfully.

Deep in unfathomable mines

Of never-failing skill.

He treasures up His bright designs,

And works His sovereign will.