The Fifteenth of September.

OUR CONVERSATION IS IN HEAVEN --- Philippians 3:20.

"Our conversation, (or our citizinship), is in heaven." --- Philippians 3:20.

Therefore "rejoice, because your names are written in heaven." --- Luke 10:20.

"Set you affections on things above, not on things on the earth." --- Colossians 3:2.

A Christian being only a traveller through the world, must expect a traveller's fare; bad roads sometimes, bad weather, and bad accommodations; but since his journey's end and city is heaven, all his actions, sufferings, prayers, trade, and conversation, turn that way.

O Lord, grant that mine eyes may always be fixed upon this mark, so as to regulate all my designs and doings accordingly, asking myself in everything, whether it be fit for heaven, and agreeable to the mind of the heavenly Bridegroom and to the manners of the heavenly citizens.

Lord, bid my soul fly up, and run
Through every heavenly street;
And say, There's nought below the sun
That's worthy of thy feet.

So shall we mount on sacred wings,
And tread the courts above;
Nor earth, nor all her mightiest things,
Shall tempt our meanest love.

The glorious tenants of the place
Stand bending round the throne;
And saints and seraphs sing and praise
The infinite Three-One.

Jesus, oh when shall that dear day,
That joyful hour appear,
When shall I leave this house of clay,
To dwell among them there?

Devotion for September 15