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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
MORNING:
"We live unto the Lord."
-- Romans 14:8
If God had willed it, each of us might have entered heaven at the
moment of conversion. It was not absolutely necessary for our
preparation for immortality that we should tarry here. It is possible
for a man to be taken to heaven, and to be found meet to be a partaker
of the inheritance of the saints in light, though he has but just
believed in Jesus. It is true that our sanctification is a long and
continued process, and we shall not be perfected till we lay aside our
bodies and enter within the veil; but nevertheless, had the Lord so
willed it, he might have changed us from imperfection to perfection,
and have taken us to heaven at once. Why then are we here? Would God
keep his children out of paradise a single moment longer than was
necessary? Why is the army of the living God still on the battle-field
when one charge might give them the victory? Why are his children still
wandering hither and thither through a maze, when a solitary word from
his lips would bring them into the centre of their hopes in heaven? The
answer is-they are here that they may "live unto the Lord," and may
bring others to know his love. We remain on earth as sowers to scatter
good seed; as ploughmen to break up the fallow ground; as heralds
publishing salvation. We are here as the "salt of the earth," to be a
blessing to the world. We are here to glorify Christ in our daily life.
We are here as workers for him, and as "workers together with him." Let
us see that our life answereth its end. Let us live earnest, useful,
holy lives, to "the praise of the glory of his grace." Meanwhile we
long to be with him, and daily sing-
"My heart is with him on his throne,
And ill can brook delay;
Each moment listening for the voice,
'Rise up, and come away.'"
EVENING:
"They are they which testify of me."
-- John 5:39
Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega of the Bible. He is the constant
theme of its sacred pages; from first to last they testify of him. At
the creation we at once discern him as one of the sacred Trinity; we
catch a glimpse of him in the promise of the woman's seed; we see him
typified in the ark of Noah; we walk with Abraham, as he sees Messiah's
day; we dwell in the tents of Isaac and Jacob, feeding upon the
gracious promise; we hear the venerable Israel talking of Shiloh; and
in the numerous types of the law, we find the Redeemer abundantly
foreshadowed. Prophets and kings, priests and preachers, all look one
way-they all stand as the cherubs did over the ark, desiring to look
within, and to read the mystery of God's great propitiation. Still more
manifestly in the New Testament we find our Lord the one pervading
subject. It is not an ingot here and there, or dust of gold thinly
scattered, but here you stand upon a solid floor of gold; for the whole
substance of the New Testament is Jesus crucified, and even its closing
sentence is bejewelled with the Redeemer's name. We should always read
Scripture in this light; we should consider the word to be as a mirror
into which Christ looks down from heaven; and then we, looking into it,
see his face reflected as in a glass-darkly, it is true, but still in
such a way as to be a blessed preparation for seeing him as we shall
see him face to face. This volume contains Jesus Christ's letters to
us, perfumed by his love. These pages are the garments of our King, and
they all smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia. Scripture is the royal
chariot in which Jesus rides, and it is paved with love for the
daughters of Jerusalem. The Scriptures are the swaddling bands of the
holy child Jesus; unroll them and you find your Saviour. The
quintessence of the word of God is Christ.
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