DAILY READINGS: Joshua 8; Isaiah 5; Luke 22:54 to 23:12
Thy way O God is in the sanctuary…Thy way is in the sea…and Thy footsteps are not known. Psalm 77:13, 19
Our Lord's rightful home is in the sanctuary, in the true sanctuary, heaven itself. But He willingly came to this little world stained by sin, and battered by storms. One day, to His disciples’ astonishment, He came to them walking on the stormy waves of Galilee. But with greater astonishment still they saw Him sink beneath the waters at Golgotha where He could say, “All Thy waves and Thy billows are gone over Me,” (Ps. 42:7). How grateful we should be today that “Many waters cannot quench love,” (Song of Sol. 8:7). His way in that sea has brought us into His sanctuary. —S. M.
How deep, how dark the waters that swept o’er Him in the flood;
How high, ark-like, the safe retreat that shuts us in with God.—Author Unknown