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Friday, November 2, 2007
MORNING:
"I am the Lord, I change not."
-- Malachi 3:6
It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is
One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on
whose brow mutability can make no furrows. All things else have
changed-all things are changing. The sun itself grows dim with age; the
world is waxing old; the folding up of the worn-out vesture has
commenced; the heavens and earth must soon pass away; they shall
perish, they shall wax old as doth a garment; but there is One who only
hath immortality, of whose years there is no end, and in whose person
there is no change. The delight which the mariner feels, when, after
having been tossed about for many a day, he steps again upon the solid
shore, is the satisfaction of a Christian when, amidst all the changes
of this troublous life, he rests the foot of his faith upon this
truth-"I am the Lord, I change not."
The stability which the anchor gives the ship when it has at last
obtained a hold-fast, is like that which the Christian's hope affords
him when it fixes itself upon this glorious truth. With God "is no
variableness, neither shadow of turning." What ever his attributes were
of old, they are now; his power, his wisdom, his justice, his truth,
are alike unchanged. He has ever been the refuge of his people, their
stronghold in the day of trouble, and he is their sure Helper still. He
is unchanged in his love. He has loved his people with "an everlasting
love"; he loves them now as much as ever he did, and when all earthly
things shall have melted in the last conflagration, his love will still
wear the dew of its youth. Precious is the assurance that he changes
not! The wheel of providence revolves, but its axle is eternal love.
"Death and change are busy ever,
Man decays, and ages move;
But his mercy waneth never;
God is wisdom, God is love."
EVENING:
"Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that
forsake thy law."
-- Psalms 119:53
My soul, feelest thou this holy shuddering at the sins of others? for
otherwise thou lackest inward holiness. David's cheeks were wet with
rivers of waters because of prevailing unholiness; Jeremiah desired
eyes like fountains that he might lament the iniquities of Israel, and
Lot was vexed with the conversation of the men of Sodom. Those upon
whom the mark was set in Ezekiel's vision, were those who sighed and
cried for the abominations of Jerusalem. It cannot but grieve gracious
souls to see what pains men take to go to hell. They know the evil of
sin experimentally, and they are alarmed to see others flying like
moths into its blaze. Sin makes the righteous shudder, because it
violates a holy law, which it is to every man's highest interest to
keep; it pulls down the pillars of the commonwealth. Sin in others
horrifies a believer, because it puts him in mind of the baseness of
his own heart: when he sees a transgressor he cries with the saint
mentioned by Bernard, "He fell to-day, and I may fall to-morrow." Sin
to a believer is horrible, because it crucified the Saviour; he sees in
every iniquity the nails and spear. How can a saved soul behold that
cursed kill-Christ sin without abhorrence? Say, my heart, dost thou
sensibly join in all this? It is an awful thing to insult God to his
face. The good God deserves better treatment, the great God claims it,
the just God will have it, or repay his adversary to his face. An
awakened heart trembles at the audacity of sin, and stands alarmed at
the contemplation of its punishment. How monstrous a thing is
rebellion! How direful a doom is prepared for the ungodly! My soul,
never laugh at sin's fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself.
It is thine enemy, and thy Lord's enemy-view it with detestation, for
so only canst thou evidence the possession of holiness, without which
no man can see the Lord.
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