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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
MORNING:
"Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast
caused me to hope."
-- Psalms 119:49
Whatever your especial need may be, you may readily find some promise
in the Bible suited to it. Are you faint and feeble because your way is
rough and you are weary? Here is the promise-"He giveth power to the
faint." When you read such a promise, take it back to the great
Promiser, and ask him to fulfil his own word. Are you seeking after
Christ, and thirsting for closer communion with him? This promise
shines like a star upon you-"Blessed are they that hunger and thirst
after righteousness, for they shall be filled." Take that promise to
the throne continually; do not plead anything else, but go to God over
and over again with this-"Lord, thou hast said it, do as thou hast
said." Are you distressed because of sin, and burdened with the heavy
load of your iniquities? Listen to these words-"I, even I, am he that
blotteth out thy transgressions, and will no more remember thy sins."
You have no merit of your own to plead why he should pardon you, but
plead his written engagements and he will perform them. Are you afraid
lest you should not be able to hold on to the end, lest, after having
thought yourself a child of God, you should prove a castaway? If that
is your state, take this word of grace to the throne and plead it: "The
mountains may depart, and the hills may be removed, but the covenant of
my love shall not depart from thee." If you have lost the sweet sense
of the Saviour's presence, and are seeking him with a sorrowful heart,
remember the promises: "Return unto me, and I will return unto you;"
"For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I
gather thee." Banquet your faith upon God's own word, and whatever your
fears or wants, repair to the Bank of Faith with your Father's note of
hand, saying, "Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast
caused me to hope."
EVENING:
"All the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted."
-- Ezekiel 3:7
Are there no exceptions? No, not one. Even the favoured race are thus
described. Are the best so bad?-then what must the worst be? Come, my
heart, consider how far thou hast a share in this universal accusation,
and while considering, be ready to take shame unto thyself wherein thou
mayst have been guilty. The first charge is impudence, or hardness of
forehead, a want of holy shame, an unhallowed boldness in evil. Before
my conversion, I could sin and feel no compunction, hear of my guilt
and yet remain unhumbled, and even confess my iniquity and manifest no
inward humiliation on account of it. For a sinner to go to God's house
and pretend to pray to him and praise him argues a brazen-facedness of
the worst kind! Alas! since the day of my new birth I have doubted my
Lord to his face, murmured unblushingly in his presence, worshipped
before him in a slovenly manner, and sinned without bewailing myself
concerning it. If my forehead were not as an adamant, harder than
flint, I should have far more holy fear, and a far deeper contrition of
spirit. Woe is me, I am one of the impudent house of Israel. The second
charge is hardheartedness, and I must not venture to plead innocent
here. Once I had nothing but a heart of stone, and although through
grace I now have a new and fleshy heart, much of my former obduracy
remains. I am not affected by the death of Jesus as I ought to be;
neither am I moved by the ruin of my fellow men, the wickedness of the
times, the chastisement of my heavenly Father, and my own failures, as
I should be. O that my heart would melt at the recital of my Saviour's
sufferings and death. Would to God I were rid of this nether millstone
within me, this hateful body of death. Blessed be the name of the Lord,
the disease is not incurable, the Saviour's precious blood is the
universal solvent, and me, even me, it will effectually soften, till my
heart melts as wax before the fire.
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