the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. Psalms 109:22. Divine answer. I know thy poverty, but thou art rich. Revelation 2:9. For blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:3. The meek shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live forever. Psalms 22:26. The Lord healeth the broken in heart, the Lord lifts up the meek. Psalms 147:3-6. A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking fax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory. Matthew 12:20.
Such are the tender mercies of Christ, towards the weakest of his people, that he supplies them from time to time, with all proportionable strength, till at last they are able to gain a complete victory. As soon therefore as we are sensible of our poverty, or miserable condition, and are truly desirous of grace and strength, to overcome sin, we have actually some grace and spiritual life, and are delivered already from the jaws of hell; for there is no such feeling in dead souls, and in hell there is only a desire to be delivered from the punishment, but not from sin itself.
Blest are the humble souls that see,
Their emptiness and poverty:
Treasures of grace to them are given,
And crowns of joy laid up in heaven.
Blest are the men with broken heart,
Who mourn, for sin, with inward smart:
The blood of Christ divinely flows,
A healing balm for all their woes.
