The Twenty Eighth of September.

WHAT MUST I DO? --- Acts 16:30, 31.

"What must I do to be saved?." Divine Answer: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." --- Acts 16:30, 31.

Faith is not a confidence of our own making, but it is God that works it in a broken and repentant heart; this faith purifies the heart, mind, and all the powers and faculties of the soul, which is the true Protestant faith; and not that we only think and say, "I believe."

All true believers have received it under a sense of godly sorrow, and with brokenness of heart. If we feel something of this, and apply to Christ, by prayer, for faith and grace, we have a sure mark of faith already; for if we did not believe we would not pray. and he that daily applies to the blood of Christ for cleansing, has true faith and hope already, though he is but weak, and does not taste any joy.

Ye dying souls, that sit
In darkness and distress,
Look from the borders of the pit,
To Christ's recov'ring grace.

Sinners shall hear the sound;
Their thankful tongues shall own
Their righeousness and strength are found
In Christ the Lord alone.

In him shall Israel trust,
And see their guilt forgiven;
God will pronounce the sinners just,
And take the saints to heaven.

Devotion for September 28