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Monday, June 30, 2008
MORNING:
"And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them."
-- John 17:22
Behold the superlative liberality of the Lord Jesus, for he hath given
us his all. Although a tithe of his possessions would have made a
universe of angels rich beyond all thought, yet was he not content
until he had given us all that he had. It would have been surprising
grace if he had allowed us to eat the crumbs of his bounty beneath the
table of his mercy; but he will do nothing by halves, he makes us sit
with him and share the feast. Had he given us some small pension from
his royal coffers, we should have had cause to love him eternally; but
no, he will have his bride as rich as himself, and he will not have a
glory or a grace in which she shall not share. He has not been content
with less than making us joint-heirs with himself, so that we might
have equal possessions. He has emptied all his estate into the coffers
of the Church, and hath all things common with his redeemed. There is
not one room in his house the key of which he will withhold from his
people. He gives them full liberty to take all that he hath to be their
own; he loves them to make free with his treasure, and appropriate as
much as they can possibly carry. The boundless fulness of his
all-sufficiency is as free to the believer as the air he breathes.
Christ hath put the flagon of his love and grace to the believer's lip,
and bidden him drink on for ever; for could he drain it, he is welcome
to do so, and as he cannot exhaust it, he is bidden to drink
abundantly, for it is all his own. What truer proof of fellowship can
heaven or earth afford?
"When I stand before the throne
Dressed in beauty not my own;
When I see thee as thou art,
Love thee with unsinning heart;
Then, Lord, shall I fully know-
Not till then-how much I owe."
EVENING:
"Ah Lord God, behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth
by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing
too hard for thee."
-- Jeremiah 32:17
At the very time when the Chaldeans surrounded Jerusalem, and when the
sword, famine and pestilence had desolated the land, Jeremiah was
commanded by God to purchase a field, and have the deed of transfer
legally sealed and witnessed. This was a strange purchase for a
rational man to make. Prudence could not justify it, for it was buying
with scarcely a probability that the person purchasing could ever enjoy
the possession. But it was enough for Jeremiah that his God had bidden
him, for well he knew that God will be justified of all his children.
He reasoned thus: "Ah, Lord God! thou canst make this plot of ground of
use to me; thou canst rid this land of these oppressors; thou canst
make me yet sit under my vine and my fig-tree in the heritage which I
have bought; for thou didst make the heavens and the earth, and there
is nothing too hard for thee." This gave a majesty to the early saints,
that they dared to do at God's command things which carnal reason would
condemn. Whether it be a Noah who is to build a ship on dry land, an
Abraham who is to offer up his only son, or a Moses who is to despise
the treasures of Egypt, or a Joshua who is to besiege Jericho seven
days, using no weapons but the blasts of rams' horns, they all act upon
God's command, contrary to the dictates of carnal reason; and the Lord
gives them a rich reward as the result of their obedient faith. Would
to God we had in the religion of these modern times a more potent
infusion of this heroic faith in God. If we would venture more upon the
naked promise of God, we should enter a world of wonders to which as
yet we are strangers. Let Jeremiah's place of confidence be
ours-nothing is too hard for the God that created the heavens and the
earth.
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