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Friday, January 23, 2009
MORNING:
"I have exalted one chosen out of the people."
-- Psalms 89:19
Why was Christ chosen out of the people? Speak, my heart, for
heart-thoughts are best. Was it not that he might be able to be our
brother, in the blest tie of kindred blood? Oh, what relationship there
is between Christ and the believer! The believer can say, "I have a
Brother in heaven; I may be poor, but I have a Brother who is rich, and
is a King, and will he suffer me to want while he is on his throne? Oh,
no! He loves me; he is my Brother." Believer, wear this blessed
thought, like a necklace of diamonds, around the neck of thy memory;
put it, as a golden ring, on the finger of recollection, and use it as
the King's own seal, stamping the petitions of thy faith with
confidence of success. He is a brother born for adversity, treat him as
such.
Christ was also chosen out of the people that he might know our wants
and sympathize with us. "He was tempted in all points like as we are,
yet without sin." In all our sorrows we have his sympathy. Temptation,
pain, disappointment, weakness, weariness, poverty-he knows them all,
for he has felt all. Remember this, Christian, and let it comfort thee.
However difficult and painful thy road, it is marked by the footsteps
of thy Saviour; and even when thou reachest the dark valley of the
shadow of death, and the deep waters of the swelling Jordan, thou wilt
find his footprints there. In all places whithersoever we go, he has
been our forerunner; each burden we have to carry, has once been laid
on the shoulders of Immanuel.
"His way was much rougher and darker than mine
Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?"
Take courage! Royal feet have left a blood-red track upon the road, and
consecrated the thorny path for ever.
EVENING:
"We will remember thy love more than wine."
-- Song of Solomon 1:4
Jesus will not let his people forget his love. If all the love they
have enjoyed should be forgotten, he will visit them with fresh love.
"Do you forget my cross?" says he, "I will cause you to remember it;
for at my table I will manifest myself anew to you. Do you forget what
I did for you in the council-chamber of eternity? I will remind you of
it, for you shall need a counsellor, and shall find me ready at your
call." Mothers do not let their children forget them. If the boy has
gone to Australia, and does not write home, his mother writes-"Has John
forgotten his mother?" Then there comes back a sweet epistle, which
proves that the gentle reminder was not in vain. So is it with Jesus,
he says to us, "Remember me," and our response is, "We will remember
thy love." We will remember thy love and its matchless history. It is
ancient as the glory which thou hadst with the Father before the world
was. We remember, O Jesus, thine eternal love when thou didst become
our Surety, and espouse us as thy betrothed. We remember the love which
suggested the sacrifice of thyself, the love which, until the fulness
of time, mused over that sacrifice, and long for the hour whereof in
the volume of the book it was written of thee, "Lo, I come." We
remember thy love, O Jesus as it was manifest to us in thy holy life,
from the manger of Bethlehem to the garden of Gethsemane. We track thee
from the cradle to the grave-for every word and deed of thine was
love-and we rejoice in thy love, which death did not exhaust; thy love
which shone resplendent in thy resurrection. We remember that burning
fire of love which will never let thee hold thy peace until thy chosen
ones be all safely housed, until Zion be glorified, and Jerusalem
settled on her everlasting foundations of light and love in heaven.
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