the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness and live. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near. Isaiah 55:2-6. And thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. Isaiah 58:11.
The Lord calls the whole world, and the whole world stops its ears. He cries outwardly and He cries inwardly; always and everywhere He finds deaf ears. He does not call in order to judge and punish. He cries, “Eat that which is good, which I have prepared for you.” Men as a rule readily come when they are invited and called to eat. Only ’’that which is good," which the Lord gives for nothing to all who hunger for it men care not for; neither will they have it. Listen, dear soul, listen how sadly He calls you and in your heart offers you His good things. Go in to Him; He gives you a food by which your soul will grow and live forever. He promises much, but He gives a great deal more. Elsewhere you find, no matter where you go, scanty food for your poor soul, a food by which it can not be strengthened nor live. It is singular that the Lord does not invite us to prepare, but only to eat "that which is good. " He has prepared it for us. Who is not fond of good food? Thus easy does the Savior make it for us. He has prepared everything for our enjoyment. It is even now ready and put on the table without costing us anything: only take and eat it! And this we will not do? The same is also said in the parable of the calling of the guests to the wedding feast (Matthew 22:4). He caused them to be invited, saving to them. “All things are now ready;" but they would not come. This blessed table is spread and fully prepared in your heart if you enter hungry, you shall be fed and live. Oh! that your soul may become hungry for this excellent food which strengthens heart, soul and body. Such food the Savior has prepared. Oh. that you may come to Him every day and eat your fill in Him! How you should live, and be blessed!
Our Shepherd to His ransomed flock
No needful gift denies,
He leads us to the opened rock.
And manna still supplies.
