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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
MORNING:
"Faultless before the presence of his glory."
-- Jude 24
Revolve in your mind that wondrous word, "faultless!" We are far off
from it now; but as our Lord never stops short of perfection in his
work of love, we shall reach it one day. The Saviour who will keep his
people to the end, will also present them at last to himself, as "a
glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but
holy and without blemish." All the jewels in the Saviour's crown are of
the first water and without a single flaw. All the maids of honour who
attend the Lamb's wife are pure virgins without spot or stain. But how
will Jesus make us faultless? He will wash us from our sins in his own
blood until we are white and fair as God's purest angel; and we shall
be clothed in his righteousness, that righteousness which makes the
saint who wears it positively faultless; yea, perfect in the sight of
God. We shall be unblameable and unreproveable even in his eyes. His
law will not only have no charge against us, but it will be magnified
in us. Moreover, the work of the Holy Spirit within us will be
altogether complete. He will make us so perfectly holy, that we shall
have no lingering tendency to sin. Judgment, memory, will-every power
and passion shall be emancipated from the thraldom of evil. We shall be
holy even as God is holy, and in his presence we shall dwell for ever.
Saints will not be out of place in heaven, their beauty will be as
great as that of the place prepared for them. Oh the rapture of that
hour when the everlasting doors shall be lifted up, and we, being made
meet for the inheritance, shall dwell with the saints in light. Sin
gone, Satan shut out, temptation past for ever, and ourselves
"faultless" before God, this will be heaven indeed! Let us be joyful
now as we rehearse the song of eternal praise so soon to roll forth in
full chorus from all the blood-washed host; let us copy David's
exultings before the ark as a prelude to our ecstasies before the
throne.
EVENING:
"And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I
will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible."
-- Jeremiah 15:21
Note the glorious personality of the promise. I will, I will. The Lord
Jehovah himself interposes to deliver and redeem his people. He pledges
himself personally to rescue them. His own arm shall do it, that he may
have the glory. Here is not a word said of any effort of our own which
may be needed to assist the Lord. Neither our strength nor our weakness
is taken into the account, but the lone I, like the sun in the heavens,
shines out resplendent in all-sufficience. Why then do we calculate our
forces, and consult with flesh and blood to our grievous wounding?
Jehovah has power enough without borrowing from our puny arm. Peace, ye
unbelieving thoughts, be still, and know that the Lord reigneth. Nor is
there a hint concerning secondary means and causes. The Lord says
nothing of friends and helpers: he undertakes the work alone, and feels
no need of human arms to aid him. Vain are all our lookings around to
companions and relatives; they are broken reeds if we lean upon
them-often unwilling when able, and unable when they are willing. Since
the promise comes alone from God, it would be well to wait only upon
him; and when we do so, our expectation never fails us. Who are the
wicked that we should fear them? The Lord will utterly consume them;
they are to be pitied rather than feared. As for terrible ones, they
are only terrors to those who have no God to fly to, for when the Lord
is on our side, whom shall we fear? If we run into sin to please the
wicked, we have cause to be alarmed, but if we hold fast our integrity,
the rage of tyrants shall be overruled for our good. When the fish
swallowed Jonah, he found him a morsel which he could not digest; and
when the world devours the church, it is glad to be rid of it again. In
all times of fiery trial, in patience let us possess our souls.
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