the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root, Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit, Isaiah 26:6. They shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. Isaiah 37:31. They shall bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing. Psalms 92:14-15. Her leaf shall be green, and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. Jeremiah 17:8.
True evangelical Christians look upon themselves as the most barren trees, ever crying out, O my leanness! my leanness! Even before the judgment-seat of Christ, they know no fruits. Matthew 25:37-39. The reason is, they are poor in spirit, and are not pleased with their fruits, but only with Christ.
O Lord, grant that I may desire not only earnestly, but singly also, to bring, forth more fruits, that I may grow in fruitfulness as I grow in years; so as to be ever green, and never ceasing from yielding fruits in my old age, fruits which may last to all eternity.
Lord ’tis a pleasant thing to stand
In gardens planted by thine hand:
Let me within thy courts be seen,
Like a young cedar fresh and green.
There grow thy saints in faith and love,
Blest with thy influence from above:,
Time, that does all things else impair.
Still makes them flourish strong and fair.
Laden with fruits of age, they show
The Lord is holy, just, and true:
None that attend his gates shall find
A God unfaithful or unkind.
