the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. Psalms 139:1-3.
It is with such thoughts as are expressed in this psalm that he who has faith in God is inspired. He who says that he believes in God, but does not believe that God sees all that there is in the heart of man, upon his tongue, and in his hand, and does not fear this all seeing eye, is a liar. It is not true that he believes in God. May David’s faith revive us! Never leave us. Thou all-seeing. Thou almighty, Thou holy and righteous God! May we not for a moment forget that Thou searchest us and knowest us; that Thou always and everywhere surroundest us, that none of our thoughts are hid from Thee, that no word on our tongue escapes Thee! ’’Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit? or whither shall I flee from Thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, Thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from Thee; but the night shineth as the day" (Psalms 139:7-12). He who in the Spirit of Christ never has anything else but this truth in mind and walks in this pious frame how holy, righteous, contrite and humble; how trusting and child-like he constantly lives and walks! But he who forgets this truth, forgets the all-seeing and all-knowing, the all-searching and omnipresent-Savior, how can faith and piety be in his mind? His Christianity is timid; his religion is ungodly; his virtue, hypocrisy; his righteousness, sin and vice.
Present alike in every place.
Thy Godhead we adore:
Beyond the bound of time and space,
Thou dwell’st for evermore.
In wisdom infinite Thou art.
Thine eye doth all things see;
And every thought of every heart
Is fully known to Thee.
