Fri.-Sabbath, 8/3-5/18 Devotion

Hip, hip, hooray—it is almost Sunday! So as to help us get ready for the Lord's Day's church worship, here is Thomas Watson, from his work, "The Spiritual Watch":

"At one time a Christian is like David, when he danced before the ark with all his might, (2 Sam. 6:14); at another time he is like Samson when his hair was shaved and his strength left him, (Judg. 16:19). When the gold has been made pure in the fire, it remains pure; but it is not so with the heart. When the heart has been purified in an ordinance, it does not remain pure, but gathers new soil and dross. The heart is humble one day and proud the next; it is meek one day and passionate the next; it is quick in its motions towards heaven one day and the next the clock is set back.

"It is with the heart as with a sick man's pulse, which alters almost every quarter of an hour. Since the heart is so full of variation and inconstancy, it is needful to keep the heart with all keeping. Like a violin, the heart will soon be out of order; therefore we must often tighten up the strings and keep the in-strument in tune so that we may make melody in our heart to the Lord, (Eph. 5:19)."