WHAT HAVE I DONE?

 EVENING DEVOTION

NOVEMBER 12

 

Jeremiah 8:6

What have I done?

 
A very necessary enquiry with which to close this day.
 
We too seldom examine our hearts, or compare our conduct with God’s word.
 
Let us the to-night seriously ask ourselves a few questions.
 
What have I done against the Lord?
 
Have I not broken his law, and disbelieved his gospel?
 
Have I not grieved his Spirit, and slighted his beloved Son?
 
Have I not murmured at his providence, and opposed his will?
 
Have I not doubted his love, and questioned his faithfulness?
 
Have I not forsaken him the fountain of living waters, and preferred his creatures to himself?
 
What have I done for the Lord?
 
Have I visited his sick, and relieved his poor?
 
Have I instructed his ignorant ones, and encouraged his desponding?
 
Have I assisted his ministers, and filled my place in his church?
 
Have I pleaded with singers, and endeavoured to restore backsliders to his fold?
 
Have I kept his glory in view, and sought to advance his kingdom in the world?
 
What have I done, compared with my means, my opportunities, my professions, and with what others have done?
 

Lord, with this guilty heart of mine

To thy dear cross I flee;

And to thy grace my soul resign,

To be renew’d by thee.

 
James Smith