the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
Thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever, Amen. Matthew 6:13. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, and honour, and power. Revelation 4:10-11. Praise ye the Lord as much as ye can, he is still higher; nay, he is all, and but a little portion is heard of him. Sirach 43:29-32. Job 26:14.
One that is really poor in spirit, though he has practised the duties of the Christian life ever so long, and so well, always thinks himself to have received but a very little portion of Christ, and the work of sanctification hardly begun in his soul. So far is he from believing he has already attained to it, that after all his best actions, he counts himself not worthy to be called by the name of a grateful son; he is never pleased with himself. No degree of holiness will satisfy his soul. He seeks and finds no rest or comfort, but in the infinite mercy of God, and in the pardon of his sins by faith; though he does not divide Christ, but receives him in all his offices, and gives himself entirely up to him without reserve, to be more and more sanctified and perfected. And in this state he is safe indeed, he is prepared for death, and has no reason to be anxiously troubled for higher degrees of sanctification. Death might come upon him before he arrived to it; and even his very best actions, without a sense of God’s forgiveness, would not support and comfort him in death.
All the assembling saints around
Fall worshipping before the Lamb,
And in new songs of gospel sound,
Address their honours to his name.
