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Saturday, February 23, 2008
MORNING:
"I will never leave thee."
-- Hebrews 13:5
No promise is of private interpretation. Whatever God has said to any
one saint, he has said to all. When he opens a well for one, it is that
all may drink. When he openeth a granary- door to give out food, there
may be some one starving man who is the occasion of its being opened,
but all hungry saints may come and feed too. Whether he gave the word
to Abraham or to Moses, matters not, O believer; he has given it to
thee as one of the covenanted seed. There is not a high blessing too
lofty for thee, nor a wide mercy too extensive for thee. Lift up now
thine eyes to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west,
for all this is thine. Climb to Pisgah's top, and view the utmost limit
of the divine promise, for the land is all thine own. There is not a
brook of living water of which thou mayst not drink. If the land
floweth with milk and honey, eat the honey and drink the milk, for both
are thine. Be thou bold to believe, for he hath said, "I will never
leave thee, nor forsake thee."In this promise, God gives to his people
everything. "I will never leave thee." Then no attribute of God can
cease to be engaged for us. Is he mighty? He will show himself strong
on the behalf of them that trust him. Is he love? Then with
lovingkindness will he have mercy upon us. Whatever attributes may
compose the character of Deity, every one of them to its fullest extent
shall be engaged on our side. To put everything in one, there is
nothing you can want, there is nothing you can ask for, there is
nothing you can need in time or in eternity, there is nothing living,
nothing dying, there is nothing in this world, nothing in the next
world, there is nothing now, nothing at the resurrection-morning,
nothing in heaven which is not contained in this text-"I will never
leave thee, nor forsake thee."
EVENING:
"Take up the cross, and follow me."
-- Mark 10:21
You have not the making of your own cross, although unbelief is a
master carpenter at cross-making; neither are you permitted to choose
your own cross, although self-will would fain be lord and master; but
your cross is prepared and appointed for you by divine love, and you
are cheerfully to accept it; you are to take up the cross as your
chosen badge and burden, and not to stand cavilling at it. This night
Jesus bids you submit your shoulder to his easy yoke. Do not kick at it
in petulance, or trample on it in vain-glory, or fall under it in
despair, or run away from it in fear, but take it up like a true
follower of Jesus. Jesus was a cross-bearer; he leads the way in the
path of sorrow. Surely you could not desire a better guide! And if he
carried a cross, what nobler burden would you desire? The Via Crucis is
the way of safety; fear not to tread its thorny paths.
Beloved, the cross is not made of feathers, or lined with velvet, it is
heavy and galling to disobedient shoulders; but it is not an iron
cross, though your fears have painted it with iron colours, it is a
wooden cross, and a man can carry it, for the Man of sorrows tried the
load. Take up your cross, and by the power of the Spirit of God you
will soon be so in love with it, that like Moses, you would not
exchange the reproach of Christ for all the treasures of Egypt.
Remember that Jesus carried it, and it will smell sweetly; remember
that it will soon be followed by the crown, and the thought of the
coming weight of glory will greatly lighten the present heaviness of
trouble. The Lord help you to bow your spirit in submission to the
divine will ere you fall asleep this night, that waking with
to-morrow's sun, you may go forth to the day's cross with the holy and
submissive spirit which becomes a follower of the Crucified.
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