Fri.-Sabbath, 8/26-28/22 Devotion

Thank God—Sunday is almost here. We get to go back to church. In order to help get us ready for Worship, here is the great (and gentle) church under-shepherd John Calvin. These words come from his “Institutes of the Christian Religion.” . . .

“Our Lord generously offers Himself to us in His Son Jesus Christ, promising us through Him all happiness in place of our misery, all fullness in place of our poverty, and opening up to us in Him [Christ] all His heavenly treasures and riches, so that our faith may look wholly to His precious Son, our expectation be wholly directed to Him, and our hope rest entirely in Him. Here is a secret, hidden and unsuspected philosophy which cannot be grasped by means of syllogisms; but those understand it whose eyes our Lord has opened, so that in His light they plainly see."