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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
If ye forsake the Lord, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt. Joshua 24:20. If thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever. 1 Chronicles 28:9. If his (David’s) children forsake my law then will I visit their transgressions with the rod. Psalms 89:30-31. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. Jeremiah 2:13-17.
He who clings to the Lord is one Spirit with Him; he constantly enjoys everything that his Lord has. Shall he be able to find anything more anywhere else? Possession and enjoyment are not only what he desires; the Lord Himself is more to him than all He possesses, a thousand times more than all the heavens and all the worlds can give. But he who has learned to know the Lord and then forsakes Him, and turns from the fountain of living waters to hew out broken cisterns, that can hold no water, will not go unpunished; God will first visit him with the profitable rod of chastisement, and if this does not cause him to come to himself and return to his Savior, but he continue in his perversion, then the Lord will turn away from him, and do him "hurt," and cast him off for ever. He who has tasted how good the Lord is, and yet departs from Him and seeks salvation elsewhere, in strange gods, has nothing good to expect; his last state will be worse than his first. God will chastise him more severely, and at last punish him harder than He will punish the blind world that knew not God. Abide, therefore, with the Lord who has redeemed you and called you to His heavenly kingdom. Why should you forsake Him? What have you to complain of in regard to Him? What is it that He has not done right for you? Where will you find a better Lord? The world, the flesh, and the devil are the three tyrants into whose hands you fall, if you depart from Jesus. They give you false promises of a great many beautiful things, but they do not keep their word. They reward you with griefs and disease, disgrace and misery, distress and death, judgment and hell.
Now I have found the firm foundation,
Where evermore my anchor grounds
It lay there ere the world’s creation,
Where else, but in my Savior’s wounds?
Foundation, which unmoved shall stay.
When earth and heaven pass away.
