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Thursday, March 19, 2009
MORNING:
"Strong in faith."
-- Romans 4:20
Christian, take good care of thy faith; for recollect faith is the only
way whereby thou canst obtain blessings. If we want blessings from God,
nothing can fetch them down but faith. Prayer cannot draw down answers
from God's throne except it be the earnest prayer of the man who
believes. Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord
Jesus in glory. Let that angel be withdrawn, we can neither send up
prayer, nor receive the answers. Faith is the telegraphic wire which
links earth and heaven-on which God's messages of love fly so fast,
that before we call he answers, and while we are yet speaking he hears
us.
But if that telegraphic wire of faith be snapped, how can we receive
the promise? Am I in trouble?-I can obtain help for trouble by faith.
Am I beaten about by the enemy?-my soul on her dear Refuge leans by
faith. But take faith away-in vain I call to God. There is no road
betwixt my soul and heaven. In the deepest wintertime faith is a road
on which the horses of prayer may travel-aye, and all the better for
the biting frost; but blockade the road, and how can we communicate
with the Great King?
Faith links me with divinity. Faith clothes me with the power of God.
Faith engages on my side the omnipotence of Jehovah. Faith ensures
every attribute of God in my defence. It helps me to defy the hosts of
hell. It makes me march triumphant over the necks of my enemies. But
without faith how can I receive anything of the Lord? Let not him that
wavereth-who is like a wave of the Sea-expect that he will receive
anything of God!
O, then, Christian, watch well thy faith; for with it thou canst win
all things, however poor thou art, but without it thou canst obtain
nothing. "If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that
believeth."
EVENING:
"And she did eat, and was sufficed, and left."
-- Ruth 2:14
Whenever we are privileged to eat of the bread which Jesus gives, we
are, like Ruth, satisfied with the full and sweet repast. When Jesus is
the host no guest goes empty from the table. Our head is satisfied with
the precious truth which Christ reveals; our heart is content with
Jesus, as the altogether lovely object of affection; our hope is
satisfied, for whom have we in heaven but Jesus? and our desire is
satiated, for what can we wish for more than "to know Christ and to be
found in him?" Jesus fills our conscience till it is at perfect peace;
our judgment with persuasion of the certainty of his teachings; our
memory with recollections of what he has done, and our imagination with
the prospects of what he is yet to do. As Ruth was "sufficed, and
left," so is it with us. We have had deep draughts; we have thought
that we could take in all of Christ; but when we have done our best we
have had to leave a vast remainder. We have sat at the table of the
Lord's love, and said, "Nothing but the infinite can ever satisfy me; I
am such a great sinner that I must have infinite merit to wash my sin
away;" but we have had our sin removed, and found that there was merit
to spare; we have had our hunger relieved at the feast of sacred love,
and found that there was a redundance of spiritual meat remaining.
There are certain sweet things in the Word of God which we have not
enjoyed yet, and which we are obliged to leave for awhile; for we are
like the disciples to whom Jesus said, "I have yet many things to say
unto you, but ye cannot bear them now." Yes, there are graces to which
we have not attained; places of fellowship nearer to Christ which we
have not reached; and heights of communion which our feet have not
climbed. At every banquet of love there are many baskets of fragments
left. Let us magnify the liberality of our glorious Boaz.
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