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Saturday, December 8, 2007
MORNING:
"Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled
their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they
are worthy."
-- Revelation 3:4
We may understand this to refer to justification. "They shall walk in
white"; that is, they shall enjoy a constant sense of their own
justification by faith; they shall understand that the righteousness of
Christ is imputed to them, that they have all been washed and made
whiter than the newly-fallen snow.
Again, it refers to joy and gladness: for white robes were holiday
dresses among the Jews. They who have not defiled their garments shall
have their faces always bright; they shall understand what Solomon
meant when he said "Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy
wine with a merry heart. Let thy garments be always white, for God hath
accepted thy works." He who is accepted of God shall wear white
garments of joy and gladness, while he walks in sweet communion with
the Lord Jesus. Whence so many doubts, so much misery, and mourning? It
is because so many believers defile their garments with sin and error,
and hence they lose the joy of their salvation, and the comfortable
fellowship of the Lord Jesus, they do not here below walk in white.
The promise also refers to walking in white before the throne of God.
Those who have not defiled their garments here shall most certainly
walk in white up yonder, where the white-robed hosts sing perpetual
hallelujahs to the Most High. They shall possess joys inconceivable,
happiness beyond a dream, bliss which imagination knoweth not,
blessedness which even the stretch of desire hath not reached. The
"undefiled in the way" shall have all this-not of merit, nor of works,
but of grace. They shall walk with Christ in white, for he has made
them "worthy." In his sweet company they shall drink of the living
fountains of waters.
EVENING:
"Thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor."
-- Psalms 68:10
All God's gifts are prepared gifts laid up in store for wants foreseen.
He anticipates our needs; and out of the fulness which he has treasured
up in Christ Jesus, he provides of his goodness for the poor. You may
trust him for all the necessities that can occur, for he has infallibly
foreknown every one of them. He can say of us in all conditions, "I
knew that thou wouldst be this and that." A man goes a journey across
the desert, and when he has made a day's advance, and pitched his tent,
he discovers that he wants many comforts and necessaries which he has
not brought in his baggage. "Ah!" says he, "I did not foresee this: if
I had this journey to go again, I should bring these things with me, so
necessary to my comfort." But God has marked with prescient eye all the
requirements of his poor wandering children, and when those needs
occur, supplies are ready. It is goodness which he has prepared for the
poor in heart, goodness and goodness only. "My grace is sufficient for
thee." "As thy days, so shall thy strength be."
Reader, is your heart heavy this evening? God knew it would be; the
comfort which your heart wants is treasured in the sweet assurance of
the text. You are poor and needy, but he has thought upon you, and has
the exact blessing which you require in store for you. Plead the
promise, believe it and obtain its fulfilment. Do you feel that you
never were so consciously vile as you are now? Behold, the crimson
fountain is open still, with all its former efficacy, to wash your sin
away. Never shall you come into such a position that Christ cannot aid
you. No pinch shall ever arrive in your spiritual affairs in which
Jesus Christ shall not be equal to the emergency, for your history has
all been foreknown and provided for in Jesus.
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