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Saturday, November 24, 2007
MORNING:
"The glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and
streams."
-- Isaiah 33:21
Broad rivers and streams produce fertility, and abundance in the land.
Places near broad rivers are remarkable for the variety of their plants
and their plentiful harvests. God is all this to his Church. Having God
she has abundance. What can she ask for that he will not give her? What
want can she mention which he will not supply? "In this mountain shall
the Lord of Hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things." Want ye
the bread of life? It drops like manna from the sky. Want ye refreshing
streams? The rock follows you, and that Rock is Christ. If you suffer
any want it is your own fault; if you are straitened you are not
straitened in him, but in your own bowels. Broad rivers and streams
also point to commerce. Our glorious Lord is to us a place of heavenly
merchandise. Through our Redeemer we have commerce with the past; the
wealth of Calvary, the treasures of the covenant, the riches of the
ancient days of election, the stores of eternity, all come to us down
the broad stream of our gracious Lord. We have commerce, too, with the
future. What galleys, laden to the water's edge, come to us from the
millennium! What visions we have of the days of heaven upon earth!
Through our glorious Lord we have commerce with angels; communion with
the bright spirits washed in blood, who sing before the throne; nay,
better still, we have fellowship with the Infinite One. Broad rivers
and streams are specially intended to set forth the idea of security.
Rivers were of old a defence. Oh! beloved, what a defence is God to his
Church! The devil cannot cross this broad river of God. How he wishes
he could turn the current, but fear not, for God abideth immutably the
same. Satan may worry, but he cannot destroy us; no galley with oars
shall invade our river, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
EVENING:
"Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the
hands to sleep: so shall thy poverty come as one that
travelleth; and thy want as an armed man."
-- Proverbs 24:33,
The worst of sluggards only ask for a little slumber; they would be
indignant if they were accused of thorough idleness. A little folding
of the hands to sleep is all they crave, and they have a crowd of
reasons to show that this indulgence is a very proper one. Yet by these
littles the day ebbs out, and the time for labour is all gone, and the
field is grown over with thorns. It is by little procrastinations that
men ruin their souls. They have no intention to delay for years-a few
months will bring the more convenient season-to-morrow if you will,
they will attend to serious things; but the present hour is so occupied
and altogether so unsuitable, that they beg to be excused. Like sands
from an hour-glass, time passes, life is wasted by driblets, and
seasons of grace lost by little slumbers. Oh, to be wise, to catch the
flying hour, to use the moments on the wing! May the Lord teach us this
sacred wisdom, for otherwise a poverty of the worst sort awaits us,
eternal poverty which shall want even a drop of water, and beg for it
in vain. Like a traveller steadily pursuing his journey, poverty
overtakes the slothful, and ruin overthrows the undecided: each hour
brings the dreaded pursuer nearer; he pauses not by the way, for he is
on his master's business and must not tarry. As an armed man enters
with authority and power, so shall want come to the idle, and death to
the impenitent, and there will be no escape. O that men were wise
be-times, and would seek diligently unto the Lord Jesus, or ere the
solemn day shall dawn when it will be too late to plough and to sow,
too late to repent and believe. In harvest, it is vain to lament that
the seed time was neglected. As yet, faith and holy decision are
timely. May we obtain them this night.
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