Daily Devotionals

John Gossner's Treasury

Devotional: January 6th

Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth. Isaiah 45:22. For Thy mercy is great above the heavens: and Thy truth reacheth unto the clouds. Psalms 108:4.

Here you see how universal is the grace of God. He invites all, from one end of the earth to the other; all may come; all are invited; all will be received. God would not call them all, if there were a single one whom He would not receive, a single one whom He had destined to perdition. According to His purpose and determination, all the ends of the earth should be saved. He who is not saved, excludes himself, and fails to obtain salvation, not because God will not save him, but because he will not suffer himself to be saved. He calls you; only come! Why are there still so many people who do not follow this gracious invitation? There ought no more to dwell on earth a soul who should not have thrown himself into God’s open arms of grace long ago. Why does not one tell it to the other? Alas! if all men only knew how blessed God would like to make them, verily, they would all become Christians.

Oh, he embraces not only one nation with His loving and merciful arms, but all men from one end of the heavens to the other. How encompassing are His arms! Dear soul, do you not believe that there is room in His arms for you also? Grace, redemption and eternal salvation are prepared for all; His bosom is open to every human being who comes; he finds a kind reception and room enough and salvation enough, though all men should come. As far as the heavens reach, there is a path, a way, to the grace of God in Christ. As long as you journey beneath the heavens, and beneath the clouds, you are ever beneath the Heaven of Grace; so long does grace reach even to you. While I see the heavens and the clouds, I yet behold grace, inviting, calling, saving. The heavens and the clouds declare unto me the grace of their God and of my God whenever I see them. Thus may you also declare to every human being that dwells beneath the heavens and the clouds that there is grace for him; that grace extends even unto him; and that it is adequate for him because it reaches as far as the heavens.

Measure the heavens! Yet you have not measured grace, because it is greater than the heavens, as He who has created the heavens and who distributes grace, is greater than anything which He has created.

Weary of wandering from my God,

And now made willing to return,

I hear, and bow me to the rod;

For Thee, not without hope, I mourn;

I have an Advocate above,

A Friend before the throne of love.

O Jesus, full of truth and grace,

More full of grace than I of sin;

Yet once again I seek Thy face.

Open Thine arms and take me in!

And freely my backslidings heal

And love the faithless sinner still.

Thou knowest the way to bring me back,

My fallen spirit to restore;

Oh, for Thy truth and mercy’s sake,

Forgive and bid me sin no more:

The ruins of my soul repair,

And make my heart a house of prayer.