Fri.-Sabbath, 12/28-30/18 Devotion

Yes—it is almost Sunday, God's holy day. Let us be sure to keep the com-mandment, and worship the Lord. In order to encourage us in this, here are some good words from Jonathan Edwards, taken from his sermon entitled, "Christians a Chosen Generation":

"Christians are of so different a nature and temper from the rest of the world. The truly godly are very different in their disposition from others. They hate those things that the rest of the world loves, and love those things for which the rest of the world has no relish [taste]—insomuch that others are ready to wonder that they should place any happiness in a strict observance of the self-denying duties of religion. They wonder what delight they can take in spending so much time in meditation and prayer, and that they do not place happiness in those things which they themselves do. 1 Peter 4:4: 'Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you.' But the reason is that they are of a different race, and so drive different dispositions."