the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
Hope maketh not ashamed. For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. Romans 5:5-7. For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust. 1 Peter 3:18.
Let the Crucified One often appear before your eyes. Let this picture of the greatest love of God be reproduced in such living color that no human hand, no power of hell, no time, no death, can obliterate it. Turn your steps again and again to Golgotha. Consider today as yesterday and the day before, consider today and tomorrow and each day the Righteous One, whose love to the unjust slew Him, the Holy One, whose compassion for sinners pierced and mortally wounded Him. Do not let Him in this His most beautiful form escape your eye. Let your eye constantly rest on Him. Keep Him forever in your heart, so that you can no more disengage yourself from Him, even though you would. This place beneath the cross no true Christian ever leaves. Here true Christians all meet together and remain, as it were, cast together with Him and firmly riveted to Him. Love fastens and binds more strongly than iron bolts. Alas! he to whom it is so easy to forget Jesus as He hangs upon the cross, should weep for his cold heart, and regard himself as most miserable, and hasten, hasten to the cross, until he gets it planted in his heart as a living plant, which grows and lives, never withering or dying.
Bane and blessing, pain and pleasure,
By the cross are sanctified;
Peace is there that knows no measure,
Joys that through all time abide.
