the Fourth Week after Easter
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
He that dwelleth in the secret places of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Psalms 91:1-2. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. Psalms 2:12. For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. Psalms 86:5.
The Lord is "a cover" and "a shield," "a shadow" in the heat of tribulation. He relieves us from our weariness, and strengthens us when we seek refuge in His shadow. The fear of the human heart is the source of all afflictions. Unbelief is the mother of all anxiety and terror in afflictions. He who has God as his friend; who believes in His protecting hand, which day and night is stretched forth to cover us, and without which not a hair of our head can be harmed; who in faith grasps this hand what shall he fear? We seek protection in men; yet they cannot protect us; by their protection they will lessen our confidence in the protection of the Lord; at last they will leave us to our own devices. Therefore Jeremiah expresses himself so strongly (Jeremiah 17:5), saying, ’’Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and (mark it! ) whose heart departeth from the Lord. " He who thus explicitly trusts in the help of man and does not expect anything from God, does not believe that God helps through men, is cursed and shall not see when good cometh but be like a lonely tree in the desert. But ’’blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is." He shall be as a tree planted by the waters: it spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not wither when heat cometh, but its leaf shall be green. Yea, truly, the confidence in the Lord is a tree which is always green, a tree that bears fruit in every season of the year, the fruitfulness of which no heat nor cold can destroy; that defies all storms and dangers and remains when everything else perishes.
While I draw this fleeting breath,
When my eye-lids close in death.
When I rise to worlds unknown,
And behold Thee on Thy throne,
Rock of Ages, cleft for me!
Let me hide myself in Thee.
