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Thursday, June 4, 2009
MORNING:
"The kindness and love of God our Saviour."
-- Titus 3:4
How sweet it is to behold the Saviour communing with his own beloved
people! There can be nothing more delightful than, by the Divine
Spirit, to be led into this fertile field of delight. Let the mind for
an instant consider the history of the Redeemer's love, and a thousand
enchanting acts of affection will suggest themselves, all of which have
had for their design the weaving of the heart into Christ, and the
intertwisting of the thoughts and emotions of the renewed soul with the
mind of Jesus. When we meditate upon this amazing love, and behold the
all-glorious Kinsman of the Church endowing her with all his ancient
wealth, our souls may well faint for joy. Who is he that can endure
such a weight of love? That partial sense of it which the Holy Spirit
is sometimes pleased to afford, is more than the soul can contain; how
transporting must be a complete view of it! When the soul shall have
understanding to discern all the Saviour's gifts, wisdom wherewith to
estimate them, and time in which to meditate upon them, such as the
world to come will afford us, we shall then commune with Jesus in a
nearer manner than at present. But who can imagine the sweetness of
such fellowship? It must be one of the things which have not entered
into the heart of man, but which God hath prepared for them that love
him. Oh, to burst open the door of our Joseph's granaries, and see the
plenty which he hath stored up for us! This will overwhelm us with
love. By faith we see, as in a glass darkly, the reflected image of his
unbounded treasures, but when we shall actually see the heavenly things
themselves, with our own eyes, how deep will be the stream of
fellowship in which our soul shall bathe itself! Till then our loudest
sonnets shall be reserved for our loving benefactor, Jesus Christ our
Lord, whose love to us is wonderful, passing the love of women.
EVENING:
"Received up into glory."
-- 1 Timothy 3:16
We have seen our well-beloved Lord in the days of his flesh, humiliated
and sore vexed; for he was "despised and rejected of men, a man of
sorrows, and acquainted with grief." He whose brightness is as the
morning, wore the sackcloth of sorrow as his daily dress: shame was his
mantle, and reproach was his vesture. Yet now, inasmuch as he has
triumphed over all the powers of darkness upon the bloody tree, our
faith beholds our King returning with dyed garments from Edom, robed in
the splendour of victory. How glorious must he have been in the eyes of
seraphs, when a cloud received him out of mortal sight, and he ascended
up to heaven! Now he wears the glory which he had with God or ever the
earth was, and yet another glory above all-that which he has well
earned in the fight against sin, death, and hell. As victor he wears
the illustrious crown. Hark how the song swells high! It is a new and
sweeter song: "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, for he hath redeemed
us unto God by his blood!" He wears the glory of an Intercessor who can
never fail, of a Prince who can never be defeated, of a Conqueror who
has vanquished every foe, of a Lord who has the heart's allegiance of
every subject. Jesus wears all the glory which the pomp of heaven can
bestow upon him, which ten thousand times ten thousand angels can
minister to him. You cannot with your utmost stretch of imagination
conceive his exceeding greatness; yet there will be a further
revelation of it when he shall descend from heaven in great power, with
all the holy angels-"Then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory."
Oh, the splendour of that glory! It will ravish his people's hearts.
Nor is this the close, for eternity shall sound his praise, "Thy
throne, O God, is for ever and ever!" Reader, if you would joy in
Christ's glory hereafter, he must be glorious in your sight now. Is he
so?
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