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Sunday, May 31, 2009
MORNING:
"The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron."
-- 2 Samuel 15:23
David passed that gloomy brook when flying with his mourning company
from his traitor son. The man after God's own heart was not exempt from
trouble, nay, his life was full of it. He was both the Lord's Anointed,
and the Lord's Afflicted. Why then should we expect to escape? At
sorrow's gates the noblest of our race have waited with ashes on their
heads, wherefore then should we complain as though some strange thing
had happened unto us?
The KING of kings himself was not favoured with a more cheerful or
royal road. He passed over the filthy ditch of Kidron, through which
the filth of Jerusalem flowed. God had one Son without sin, but not a
single child without the rod. It is a great joy to believe that Jesus
has been tempted in all points like as we are. What is our Kidron this
morning? Is it a faithless friend, a sad bereavement, a slanderous
reproach, a dark foreboding? The King has passed over all these. Is it
bodily pain, poverty, persecution, or contempt? Over each of these
Kidrons the King has gone before us. "In all our afflictions he was
afflicted." The idea of strangeness in our trials must be banished at
once and for ever, for he who is the Head of all saints, knows by
experience the grief which we think so peculiar. All the citizens of
Zion must be free of the Honourable Company of Mourners, of which the
Prince Immanuel is Head and Captain.
Notwithstanding the abasement of David, he yet returned in triumph to
his city, and David's Lord arose victorious from the grave; let us then
be of good courage, for we also shall win the day. We shall yet with
joy draw water out of the wells of salvation, though now for a season
we have to pass by the noxious streams of sin and sorrow. Courage,
soldiers of the Cross, the King himself triumphed after going over
Kidron, and so shall you.
EVENING:
"Who healeth all thy diseases."
-- Psalms 103:3
Humbling as is the statement, yet the fact is certain, that we are all
more or less suffering under the disease of sin. What a comfort to know
that we have a great Physician who is both able and willing to heal us!
Let us think of him awhile to-night. His cures are very speedy-there is
life in a look at him; his cures are radical-he strikes at the centre
of the disease; and hence, his cures are sure and certain. He never
fails, and the disease never returns. There is no relapse where Christ
heals; no fear that his patients should be merely patched up for a
season, he makes new men of them: a new heart also does he give them,
and a right spirit does he put with them. He is well skilled in all
diseases. Physicians generally have some speciality. Although they may
know a little about almost all our pains and ills, there is usually one
disease which they have studied above all others; but Jesus Christ is
thoroughly acquainted with the whole of human nature. He is as much at
home with one sinner as with another, and never yet did he meet with an
out-of-the-way case that was difficult to him. He has had extraordinary
complications of strange diseases to deal with, but he has known
exactly with one glance of his eye how to treat the patient. He is the
only universal doctor; and the medicine he gives is the only true
catholicon, healing in every instance. Whatever our spiritual malady
may be, we should apply at once to this Divine Physician. There is no
brokenness of heart which Jesus cannot bind up. "His blood cleanseth
from all sin." We have but to think of the myriads who have been
delivered from all sorts of diseases through the power and virtue of
his touch, and we shall joyfully put ourselves in his hands. We trust
him, and sin dies; we love him, and grace lives; we wait for him and
grace is strengthened; we see him as he is, and grace is perfected for
ever.
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