Daily Devotional Readings - Booklet Two - March and April

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Daily Devotional Readings – Taken from the Works of Robert Murray M’Cheyne
Booklet Two — March and April

March First

Positive sin
“But if any provide not for his own, and specially those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel” 1 Timothy 5:8.
If you do not worship God in your family, you are living in positive sin; you may be quite sure you do not care for the souls of your family. If you neglected to spread a meal for your children to eat, would it not be said that you did not care for their bodies? And if you do not lead your children and servants to the green pastures of God’s Word, and to seek the living water, how plain is it that you do not care for their souls! Do it regularly, morning and evening. It is more needful than your daily food — more needful than your work. How vain and silly all your excuses will appear, when you look back from hell! Do it fully. Some clip off the psalm, and some the reading of the Word; and so the worship of God is reduced to a mockery. Do it in a spiritual, lively manner. Go to it as to a well of salvation. There is, perhaps, no means of grace more blessed. Let all your family be present without fail — let none be awanting [absent].

March Second

Be ready
“For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand” 2 Timothy 4:6.
Dear believers, be ready to leave your room for the golden harp, at a minute’s warning; be ready to leave your desk for the throne of Jesus — your pen for the palm of victory; be ready to leave the market below, for the street of the new Jerusalem, where the redeemed shall walk. If you were in a sinking ship, you would not cling hard to bags of money — you would sit loose to all, and be …