the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified. Psalms 70:4. And your heart shall live that seek God. Psalms 69:32.
What promises have not all who seek the Lord, who put their trust in Him only! Surrender your hearts wholly and unconditionally, all of you, to the Lord, How He would fill them with joy and blessedness! Who should be glad and magnify God if not they who have God with them they in whom Christ lives? Who should have God with them, Christ dwelling in them, if not they who seek Him and love Him? His heart inclines at once to every heart that inclines to Him. O ye hearts! what do ye seek beside Him, the Friend of the heart? Your heart can not live, not be blest, if you do not seek Him and turn with the whole heart to Him. Know you not that everywhere else you find nothing but heart-sorrow? Peace and rest for the heart you find in Him alone, who has created your heart and is both willing and able to regenerate it. His kingdom is a kingdom of the heart. He willingly enters into the hearts and blesses them. That is His delight. If you have Him in the heart, you have a fountain of joy within which is inexhaustible. Then what can cause you sorrow? What a heaven such a heart is! What a heaven of heavens when several such hearts meet who have the Lord within! Who shall be able to destroy their joy? On the other hand, how they will be affrighted and fall, who do not possess Him and seek Him! Forever blest is the soul in whom God and Jesus dwell. Blessed, glorious as heaven, is every heart which is in Christ. Wretched, and miserable, and poor, on the other hand, is every soul who lives without God, without Jesus, and without grace.
Dear Savior, draw reluctant hearts;
To Thee let sinners fly,
And take the bliss Thy love imparts,
And drink and never die.
