the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee! Psalms 71:19. Our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins. Galatians 1:4. Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to usward; they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee; if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. Psalms 40:5.
All the works of God are "high" and incomprehensible. But the greatest work and wonder which He has done for us children of men is and remains forever that He, the Creator of all things, humbled Himself and made Himself a surety and a ransom for His creatures who were lost in debt. To create all the worlds cost Him only a word, ’’Let there be! " and they stood forth. But to regenerate the perverted creatures and make them good and new, cost Him the deepest humiliation in sinful flesh, the worst disgrace, the most bitter pain and the most ignominious death. A soul who contemplates his Savior’s love upon the cross, who beholds Him in His disgrace and in the throes of death, cannot often enough exclaim, "Lord, who is like unto Thee! What can be compared with Thee! Many are Thy wonderful works which Thou hast done and Thy thoughts which are to usward. " We cannot reckon them and yet we cannot be silent concerning them; we cannot praise them as they deserve to be praised; and yet who should praise anything but these great works of God, before which all that Is called great becomes as naught and all that Is esteemed glorious vanishes as a dream?
From all that dwell below the skies
Let the Creator’s praise arise;
Let the Redeemer’s name be sung
Through every land, by every tongue.
