the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
I am glorified in them. I have declared unto them thy name, and I will declare it, that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them: I in them, and thou in me, that I may be made perfect in one. John 17:10; John 17:23-26.
O glorious promise! how could he love us more? What blessed and intimate union is this? O for such a faith that could always truly believe it! Christ is the vine, believers are the branches: he the Bridegroom, we the bride; he the head, we the members of his body, of his very flesh and very bones, and consequently one body with him. And who ever hated his own flesh? So in loving and cherishing us, he loves himself. Ephesians 5:28-29. Whenever he shall cease to love himself, then, and no sooner, shall he cease to love and cherish us also. It is his own delight to do us good, more than the mother that suckles her child.
Lord, what a heaven of saving grace
Shines through the beauties of thy face,
And light our passions to a flame!
Lord, how we love thy charming name!
When can I say, my God is mine,
When I can see thy glories shine:
I tread the World beneath my feet,
And all that earth calls good or great.
Send comforts down from thy right hand,
While we pass through this barren land;
And in thy temple let us see
A glimpse of love, a glimpse of thee.
