Daily Devotionals

John Gossner's Treasury

Devotional: November 21st

Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. John 6:68. We have also a more sure word of prophecy: whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts. 2 Peter 1:19,

All men who have not God’s word or who believe not in the Lord Jesus, are in deepest darkness and blindness, without true consolation in life and death. They are miserable and unhappy even though they do not feel their misery. All who have learned to know Jesus and His living word, know this. They did not know before how miserable they were; but having tasted the blessedness to be found in Jesus, they know it. Precious and invaluable the word of the Lord becomes to us only when the day of awakening and repentance breaks forth, when the Day Star, Christ, the living God, the true Light, arises in our hearts. Then one sees light in His light; everything becomes light and clear, then everything becomes living. But what you have received you must also retain in your hearts, in a living memory so that nothing may again entice you away from Jesus. All kinds of temptations and trials come upon the believers. Yet when they remember Jesus Christ; when they have tasted the powers of the world to come; when they have learned to know the living word of God which has brought the soul from death unto life, from darkness unto light; when they ever seek to preserve this light and life, they can say in every temptation that would draw them away from Christ, as Peter said, "To whom shall we go? We will remain with Thee; for Thou hast the words of eternal life. "

When our foes are near us.

Then Thy word doth cheer us,

Word of consolation,

Message of salvation.

When the storms are o’er us.

And dark clouds before us.

Then its light directeth,

And our way protecteth.