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Sunday, August 3, 2008
MORNING:
"The Lamb is the light thereof."
-- Revelation 21:23
Quietly contemplate the Lamb as the light of heaven. Light in Scripture
is the emblem of joy. The joy of the saints in heaven is comprised in
this: Jesus chose us, loved us, bought us, cleansed us, robed us, kept
us, glorified us: we are here entirely through the Lord Jesus. Each one
of these thoughts shall be to them like a cluster of the grapes of
Eshcol. Light is also the cause of beauty. Nought of beauty is left
when light is gone. Without light no radiance flashes from the
sapphire, no peaceful ray proceedeth from the pearl; and thus all the
beauty of the saints above comes from Jesus. As planets, they reflect
the light of the Sun of Righteousness; they live as beams proceeding
from the central orb. If he withdrew, they must die; if his glory were
veiled, their glory must expire. Light is also the emblem of knowledge.
In heaven our knowledge will be perfect, but the Lord Jesus himself
will be the fountain of it. Dark providences, never understood before,
will then be clearly seen, and all that puzzles us now will become
plain to us in the light of the Lamb. Oh! what unfoldings there will be
and what glorifying of the God of love! Light also means manifestation.
Light manifests. In this world it doth not yet appear what we shall be.
God's people are a hidden people, but when Christ receives his people
into heaven, he will touch them with the wand of his own love, and
change them into the image of his manifested glory. They were poor and
wretched, but what a transformation! They were stained with sin, but
one touch of his finger, and they are bright as the sun, and clear as
crystal. Oh! what a manifestation! All this proceeds from the exalted
Lamb. Whatever there may be of effulgent splendour, Jesus shall be the
centre and soul of it all. Oh! to be present and to see him in his own
light, the King of kings, and Lord of lords!
EVENING:
"But as he went."
-- Luke 8:42
Jesus is passing through the throng to the house of Jairus, to raise
the ruler's dead daughter; but he is so profuse in goodness that he
works another miracle while upon the road. While yet this rod of Aaron
bears the blossom of an unaccomplished wonder, it yields the ripe
almonds of a perfect work of mercy. It is enough for us, if we have
some one purpose, straightway to go and accomplish it; it were
imprudent to expend our energies by the way. Hastening to the rescue of
a drowning friend, we cannot afford to exhaust our strength upon
another in like danger. It is enough for a tree to yield one sort of
fruit, and for a man to fulfil his own peculiar calling. But our Master
knows no limit of power or boundary of mission. He is so prolific of
grace, that like the sun which shines as it rolls onward in its orbit,
his path is radiant with lovingkindness. He is a swift arrow of love,
which not only reaches its ordained target, but perfumes the air
through which it flies. Virtue is evermore going out of Jesus, as sweet
odours exhale from flowers; and it always will be emanating from him,
as water from a sparkling fountain. What delightful encouragement this
truth affords us! If our Lord is so ready to heal the sick and bless
the needy, then, my soul, be not thou slow to put thyself in his way,
that he may smile on thee. Be not slack in asking, if he be so abundant
in bestowing. Give earnest heed to his word now, and at all times, that
Jesus may speak through it to thy heart. Where he is to be found there
make thy resort, that thou mayst obtain his blessing. When he is
present to heal, may he not heal thee? But surely he is present even
now, for he always comes to hearts which need him. And dost not thou
need him? Ah, he knows how much! Thou Son of David, turn thine eye and
look upon the distress which is now before thee, and make thy suppliant
whole.
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