Daily Devotionals

Devotional: April 18th

"0 God, thou art my God." ― Psalms 63:1.

Mine! All mine! All the revelation of thee in the Bible is the revelation of my God. Thy wisdom is all for me. So is thy power. So is thy goodness. So is thy truth, thy purity, thy justice; thy time is for me, thy eternity for me ’, thy works’ for me. Thou sittest on the throne of the universe for me; pervadest all space for me; arrangest all thy plans for me.

Many millions of millions of miles away, but a star to thine eyes, is a sun huge in mass, dazzling in splendor, weighty in attraction, beneficent in function. Around it, in orbit succeeding orbit, with velocities, densities, bulks, revolutions, times, beautifully harmonized, are numerous planets, each having its oceans and continents, its forests, its animals, its intelligent creation. Shall God take thought for thee, in that distant group of worlds? Can he not let go the thought of thee, as he enters that distant system and directs its sublime movements? No, he cannot let go the thought of thee. That sun is commissioned not only to give light to those revolving worlds, but ever, without a moment’s intermission, to send down to thee a ray of light expressive of his unforgetting love. It hangs above thee by day, hindered by other light from reaching thee; but no sooner does night open a door for it, than it rushes to the spot where thou art. All the night long it is there; thou hast but to look, and it meets thy glance. What meets thy glance? Yon distant sun, thousands of times the size of this earth. The ray that meets thy eye is all for thee; it is thine own particular token that the omnipresent God, in whatsoever part of the universe he may be displaying his perfections, cannot for an instant be unmindful of the relation existing between him and thee.

This in nature. How much more in grace. And we learn these things first in grace.

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