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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we look not at the things which are seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:17-18. Therefore, blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, note, from henceforth; yea, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labours, (also from all their afflictions) and their works do follow them. Revelation 14:13.
Some pretend to be so evangelical as to have no longer any inward troubles and vexations; neither will they allow of such prayers, or other acts of Christian duty and devotion, as are done with any reluctance of heart, calling them legal and meritorious works of our own. This would be true, if there were in a true Christian, no remains of unbelief and sin, which often make him dull and heavy, and must be always overcome, as it were, by force: though the spirit be willing, and in the midst of all troubles and groanings, longs the more after that perfect rest above.
Our sins, alas! how strong they be,
And like a raging sea,
They break our duty, Lord to thee,
And hurry us away.
The waves of trouble, how they rise!
How loud the tempests roar!
But death shall land our weary soul
Safe on the heavenly shore.
