the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
Every man has his proper gift of God. 1 Corinthians 7:7.
Therefore what God withholds from us, namely, sensible joy, or other particular gifts, to do something extraordinary for his glory, cannot be extorted from him by force. Neither does he require it of us, since it is his own gift, which he freely bestows upon whom and when he pleases. Be ye only faithful in what you have, and what you are commanded to do. Especially avoid sin (which above all things disturbs our peace) and keep close to the word of God and to prayer; for this is thy own, what God requires of thee. And if you do your part, God will do his part also, he will quicken thee and grant thee all, when it is most needful, and you have learned how to use it right.
O Lord, suffer me never to go beyond the bounds of my own measure, that I may undertake nothing without thy grace and call, and neglect that which I am called to. Show me always my own gift and proper work which I am ordered to perform. Let me never be drawn away, even in seemingly good things, by my own will, that I may not run before thee, but listen always at thy command, and thus be ever ready at thy service according to thy own will.
Grant, O Lord, that I may be entirely resigned to thy good pleasure, and be faithful in all things, as it becomes one, that is thy whole sacrifice and property. Amen.,
Behold the potter and the clay,
He forms the vessel as he please;
Such is our God, and such are we,
The subjects of his high decrees.
