Fri.-Sabbath, 9/25-27/20 Devotion

Praise God—Sunday is almost here! In order to help prepare us for the church’s worship of God, here are the encouraging words of a great 18th-cen-tury New England pastor, by the name of Thomas Shepard. . . .

"Such is the overflowing and extrinsic [extreme] love of a blessed God, that it [God’s love] cannot contain itself, (as it were), for so long a time from special fellowship with His people . . . and therefore will have some special times of special fellowship and sweetest mutual embracings; and this time . . . a whole [Sabbath] [Sun]day, that there may be time enough to have their fill of love in each other's hearts before they part."