Fri.-Sabbath, 5/3-5/13 Devotion

Wahoo--Sunday is almost here! So as to help get us ready for the Sab-bath Day, here are good words from the great Thomas Watson, taken from his book, "All Things for Good":

"The mercies of God quicken [make alive]. As they are loadstones [magnets] to love, so they are whetstones to obedience. 'I will walk be-fore the Lord in the land of the living,' (Psalm 116:9). He that takes a review of his blessings, looks upon himself as a person engaged for God. He argues from the sweetness of mercy to the swiftness of duty. He spends and is spent for Christ; he dedicates himself to God. Among the Romans, when one had redeemed another, he was after-wards to serve him. A soul encompassed with mercy is zealously ac-tive in God’s service.

"The mercies of God work compassion to others. A Christian is a tem-poral saviour. He feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, and visits the widow and orphan in their distress; among them he sows the golden seeds of his charity. 'A good man shows favour, and lends,' (Psalm 112:5). Charity drops from him freely, as myrrh from the tree. Thus to the godly, the mercies of God work for good; they are wings to lift them up to heaven."