Fri.-Sabbath, 11/29-12/1/19 Devotion

Thank God—it is almost Sunday! In order to help get us ready for church, here is Thomas Watson, from his excellent book, entitled, "A Body of Divin-
ity." . . .

"A people in covenant with God are a willing people; though they cannot serve God perfectly, they serve Him willingly. They do not grudge God a little time spent in His worship; they do not hesitate or murmur at sufferings; they will go through a sea and a wilderness, if God calls them to it. 'Your people shall be a willing people,' (Ps. 110:3). This spontaneity and willingness is from the attractive power of God’s Spirit: the Spirit does not force, but sweetly draws the will; and this willingness in religion makes all our services accept-ed.

"God's covenant people are a consecrated people, they have holiness to the Lord written upon them. . . . God's covenant people are separated from the world, and sanctified by the Spirit. The priests under the law were not only to wash in the great basin, but were arrayed with glorious apparel, (Ex. 28:2). This was a type, to show God’s people are not only washed from gross sins, but adorned with holiness of heart. They bear not only God’s name, but im-age."