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Sunday, October 28, 2007
MORNING:
"I have chosen you out of the world."
-- John 15:19
Here is distinguishing grace and discriminating regard; for some are
made the special objects of divine affection. Do not be afraid to dwell
upon this high doctrine of election. When your mind is most heavy and
depressed, you will find it to be a bottle of richest cordial. Those
who doubt the doctrines of grace, or who cast them into the shade, miss
the richest clusters of Eshcol; they lose the wines on the lees well
refined, the fat things full of marrow. There is no balm in Gilead
comparable to it. If the honey in Jonathan's wood when but touched
enlightened the eyes, this is honey which will enlighten your heart to
love and learn the mysteries of the kingdom of God. Eat, and fear not a
surfeit; live upon this choice dainty, and fear not that it will be too
delicate a diet. Meat from the King's table will hurt none of his
courtiers. Desire to have your mind enlarged, that you may comprehend
more and more the eternal, everlasting, discriminating love of God.
When you have mounted as high as election, tarry on its sister mount,
the covenant of grace. Covenant engagements are the munitions of
stupendous rock behind which we lie entrenched; covenant engagements
with the surety, Christ Jesus, are the quiet resting-places of
trembling spirits.
"His oath, his covenant, his blood,
Support me in the raging flood;
When every earthly prop gives way,
This still is all my strength and stay."
If Jesus undertook to bring me to glory, and if the Father promised
that he would give me to the Son to be a part of the infinite reward of
the travail of his soul; then, my soul, till God himself shall be
unfaithful, till Jesus shall cease to be the truth, thou art safe. When
David danced before the ark, he told Michal that election made him do
so. Come, my soul, exult before the God of grace and leap for joy of
heart.
EVENING:
"His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and
black as a raven."
-- Song of Solomon 5:11
Comparisons all fail to set forth the Lord Jesus, but the spouse uses
the best within her reach. By the head of Jesus we may understand his
deity, "for the head of Christ is God" and then the ingot of purest
gold is the best conceivable metaphor, but all too poor to describe one
so precious, so pure, so dear, so glorious. Jesus is not a grain of
gold, but a vast globe of it, a priceless mass of treasure such as
earth and heaven cannot excel. The creatures are mere iron and clay,
they all shall perish like wood, hay, and stubble, but the ever living
Head of the creation of God shall shine on for ever and ever. In him is
no mixture, nor smallest taint of alloy. He is for ever infinitely holy
and altogether divine. The bushy locks depict his manly vigour. There
is nothing effeminate in our Beloved. He is the manliest of men. Bold
as a lion, laborious as an ox, swift as an eagle. Every conceivable and
inconceivable beauty is to be found in him, though once he was despised
and rejected of men.
"His head the finest gold;
With secret sweet perfume,
His curled locks hang all as black
As any raven's plume."
The glory of his head is not shorn away, he is eternally crowned with
peerless majesty. The black hair indicates youthful freshness, for
Jesus has the dew of his youth upon him. Others grow languid with age,
but he is for ever a Priest as was Melchizedek; others come and go, but
he abides as God upon his throne, world without end. We will behold him
to-night and adore him. Angels are gazing upon him-his redeemed must
not turn away their eyes from him. Where else is there such a Beloved?
O for an hour's fellowship with him! Away, ye intruding cares! Jesus
draws me, and I run after him.
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