DAILY DEVOTION - 26 OCTOBER 2020

Good morning. Peace be with you all. Rejoice in the Lord always. "Will you also go away?" John 6:67.

Insight

Many people have forsaken Christ, and have walked no more with Him; but what reason do you have to do the same? Has there been any reason for it in the past? Has not Jesus proved himself all-sufficient to you? He appeals to you this morning, “Have I been a wilderness unto you?" When your soul has simply trusted Jesus, have you ever been confounded? Have you not up till now found your Lord to be a compassionate and generous friend and saviour to you, and has not simple faith in Him given you all the peace your spirit could desire? Can you so much as dream of a better friend than He has been to you? Then change not the old and tried for new and false. As for the present, can that compel you to leave Christ? When we are hard tormented with this world, or with the severer trials within, we find it a most blessed thing to pillow our head upon the bosom of our Saviour. This is the joy we have today that we are saved in Him; and if this joy be satisfying, wherefore should we think of changing?

Challenge

As for the future, can you suggest anything which can arise that shall render it necessary for you to rebellion, or desert the Lord Jesus to serve under another saviour? I think not. If we are poor in spirit, what better than to have Christ who can make us rich? When we are sick, what more do we want than Jesus to make our bed in our sickness? When we die, is it not written that "neither death, nor life, nor things present, nor things to come, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord!" We say with Peter, "Lord, to whom shall we go?" May God bless and protect you all. In Jesus mighty name. Amen.