Devotional

                                                             Romans 8:13
                                "Ourselves also which have the Firstfruits of the Spirit"

      The miseries of the human race, through their own and each others wickedness, declare that the world is not always to continue as it is.  Our having received the First-Fruits of the Spirit: which we know are, Repentance, Faith, Hope and Love increases our desires, encourages our hopes and raises our expectations.
      Sin has been and is, the guilty cause of all the suffering that exist in the creation of God.  There has not a tear been shed, not a groan been uttered, or a pain felt in the body that was not rooted in sin.  Sin is to be looked at as it affects the glory of God.
      Believers have been brought into a state of safety, but the comfort consist in hope.  From this hope we cannot be turned by the vain expectation of this world.  We mus have Patience, Our way is rough and long; but He that shall come, will come, though we know not when.