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Monday, April 21, 2008
MORNING:
"I know that my Redeemer liveth."
-- Job 19:25
The marrow of Job's comfort lies in that little word "My"-"My
Redeemer," and in the fact that the Redeemer lives. Oh! to get hold of
a living Christ. We must get a property in him before we can enjoy him.
What is gold in the mine to me? Men are beggars in Peru, and beg their
bread in California. It is gold in my purse which will satisfy my
necessities, by purchasing the bread I need. So a Redeemer who does not
redeem me, an avenger who will never stand up for my blood, of what
avail were such? Rest not content until by faith you can say "Yes, I
cast myself upon my living Lord; and he is mine." It may be you hold
him with a feeble hand; you half think it presumption to say, "He lives
as my Redeemer;" yet, remember if you have but faith as a grain of
mustard seed, that little faith entitles you to say it. But there is
also another word here, expressive of Job's strong confidence, "I
know." To say, "I hope so, I trust so" is comfortable; and there are
thousands in the fold of Jesus who hardly ever get much further. But to
reach the essence of consolation you must say, "I know." Ifs, buts, and
perhapses, are sure murderers of peace and comfort. Doubts are dreary
things in times of sorrow. Like wasps they sting the soul! If I have
any suspicion that Christ is not mine, then there is vinegar mingled
with the gall of death; but if I know that Jesus lives for me, then
darkness is not dark: even the night is light about me. Surely if Job,
in those ages before the coming and advent of Christ, could say, "I
know," we should not speak less positively. God forbid that our
positiveness should be presumption. Let us see that our evidences are
right, lest we build upon an ungrounded hope; and then let us not be
satisfied with the mere foundation, for it is from the upper rooms that
we get the widest prospect. A living Redeemer, truly mine, is joy
unspeakable.
EVENING:
"Who is even at the right hand of God."
-- Romans 8:34
He who was once despised and rejected of men, now occupies the
honourable position of a beloved and honoured Son. The right hand of
God is the place of majesty and favour. Our Lord Jesus is his people's
representative. When he died for them they had rest; he rose again for
them, they had liberty; when he sat down at his Father's right hand,
they had favour, and honour, and dignity. The raising and elevation of
Christ is the elevation, the acceptance, and enshrinement, the
glorifying of all his people, for he is their head and representative.
This sitting at the right hand of God, then, is to be viewed as the
acceptance of the person of the Surety, the reception of the
Representative, and therefore, the acceptance of our souls. O saint,
see in this thy sure freedom from condemnation. "Who is he that
condemneth?" Who shall condemn the men who are in Jesus at the right
hand of God?
The right hand is the place of power. Christ at the right hand of God
hath all power in heaven and in earth. Who shall fight against the
people who have such power vested in their Captain? O my soul, what can
destroy thee if Omnipotence be thy helper? If the aegis of the Almighty
cover thee, what sword can smite thee? Rest thou secure. If Jesus is
thine all-prevailing King, and hath trodden thine enemies beneath his
feet; if sin, death, and hell are all vanquished by him, and thou art
represented in him, by no possibility canst thou be destroyed.
"Jesus' tremendous name
Puts all our foes to flight:
Jesus, the meek, the angry Lamb,
A Lion is in fight.
"By all hell's host withstood;
We all hell's host o'erthrow;
And conquering them, through Jesus' blood
We still to conquer go."
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