the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow: for it is soon cut off, and we flee away. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Psalms 90:10-12.
The home-coming is more desirable than the pilgrimage; that is self-evident. Who would not rather go home than journey in a strange, unknown and dangerous land? It is not so with all men, there are men enough who do not love home, who would rather roam about in the woods and wade in desert-sands than go home. Why are they so insane? Because they love darkness rather than light, licentiousness more than God; they know that they have nothing good to expect at home. But can not all receive every good thing there? Yes; but they will not come. Then there is nothing to be done for them. ’’He who will come unto God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him" (Hebrews 2:6). They spend their years ’’as a tale is told" (Psalms 90:9). They flourish as the grass which is soon withered and dried up. Oh, that they would remember that they are to wither and to be cast away! Ye children of the kingdom, ye have become wise and have long since considered, not that you must, but that you may go home, that you have permission soon to depart from the body and to be at home with the Lord. You are happy because you love your home, because your hearts are even now with Him, who beckons to you and says, Come over hither! Here below you have nothing good except the grace of the Lord. Life to you is a burden that would be unbearable if love for the Lord did not ease it. Who does not willingly put down his burden? Who does not long for the evening’s rest?
O sweet and blessed country,
The home of God’s elect!
O sweet and blessed country.
That eager hearts expect!
Jesus, in mercy bring us
To that dear land of rest;
Who art with God the Father,
And Spirit, ever blest.
