the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us. Romans 8:17-18.
If only the first is right, there shall be no lack of aught else. If you are a true child of God, begotten of God, endowed and sealed with His Spirit, led by His Spirit and filled with His love, obedient in a childlike manner to your Father, so that one can not dispute your traits as a child of God, so that the Spirit of God Himself bears witness to that effect, then you are an heir of God and a joint-heir with Christ; then there is a glory awaiting you with which all the sufferings of this world can not be compared, of which one would not be worthy even though one suffered the pangs of all the martyrs and the agony of the condemned in hell; a glory which one could not merit by any suffering, not buy at any price, which God bestows upon His children only, who, with all their heart, believe on the Name of His Son, and who, by faith and love, become like unto His image. Comfort yourself with this if, as a child of God, you are persecuted and distressed, if the world hates you because you are not one of its children. Look out into that other world, when this world becomes too narrow for you! The former belongs to you; this one does not. Demand and expect therefore nothing from the world except free passage to your native land. If your journey be made difficult for you, which as a rule it is, take comfort in the fact that all that happens to you on your journey through this world, will but serve to enhance your glory beyond.
My Father’s house on high,
Home of my soul, how near.
At times to faith’s foreseeing eye,
Thy golden gates appear!
