the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
Who is like unto thee, O Lord? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? Exodus 15:11. O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto thee? Psalms 89:8. The desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. Isaiah 26:8.
If the Lord were to the pious hearts in the old covenant the highest good with which nothing else could be compared; if He did impart Himself to them in such an overflowing manner while the cloud yet hung above the sanctuary; if they already at that time had such experiences with Him that they lost desire of all other things so that He and the remembrance of Him constituted the greatest joy of their heart: what, then, should not we feel and experience in the new covenant where all who, with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image? (2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Corinthians 4:6). What has He not done for us? What does He not do daily for souls that wait upon Him? What shall and will He not eternally do for us in accordance with His promises? He who knows this and lives in the enjoyment of his salvation, most assuredly cries out a thousand times, ’’Lord, who is like unto thee? " In him no thought of anything else can arise. He can not harbor any wish in his soul to possess anything without or besides Him. Who would have so much patience and longsuffering with our weak hearts that are ever inclined to follow wrong paths and turn aside from Him? There is none like Him. May His name, His remembrance, be and continue to be the one desire and joy of our heart! May nothing else be so dear to us as He. However great, beautiful, inviting and attractive, it shall nevertheless not supersede Him in our heart. His place therein shall not be occupied by anything else. He alone shall be the one whom our soul embraces, holds fast and will not lose. Everything else that can not exist beside Him ought and must give place to Him, ought and must be superseded, by Him. May our whole being, at every moment, say as with a thousand tongues, ’’Who is like unto Thee, O Lord? "
From day to day, O Lord do we
Highly exalt and honor Thee!
Thy name we worship and adore,
World without end for evermore!
