Daily Devotionals

John Gossner's Treasury

Devotional: January 23rd

Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness, and for all the prosperity, that I procure unto it. Jeremiah 33:6-9.

Your Savior will not only forgive you, but He will also comfort you; nor will He only comfort you, but He will also "cure" your imperfections if it be a matter of importance to you and if you earnestly and constantly seek such healing in prayer. Yea, He will give you so much goodness, so much heavenly peace and unspeakable joy and happiness, that you shall be astonished and hardly able to believe it. Therefore, do not place any barriers in the way of His love. Permit Him to bestow upon you all the goodness which He has intended for you. Do not be satisfied with the fact that He has forgiven you your sins of the past; suffer yourself to be cured radically, and let your soul be filled with the heavenly good things in Christ. He who bore with you so long when you were in your sins will, after the remission of your sins, elevate you to the enjoyment of all the blessings of salvation. When a pardoned soul permits the Savior and His Spirit to work freely in his heart and does not by thoughtlessness or distraction place obstructions in His way, he receives many evidences of grace and heavenly blessings. But most souls desire only forgiveness of sins and not cure from their sins, not health to the soul. Without this, however, they will soon lose the other. For if your sins be actually and truly forgiven, your heart is cured so that you have no more desire to commit sin.

Left to ourselves we shall but stray;

O lead us In the narrow way,

"With wisest counsel guide us,

And give us steadfastness, that we

May henceforth truly follow Thee,

Whatever woes betide us:

Heal Thou gently

Hearts now broken,

Give some token

Thou art near us.

Whom we trust to light and cheer us.