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Daily devotions for 10-28-2004:
Devotion: Morning and Evening
Morning Title: Chosen By God
Evening Title: Beyond Compare
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Morning: Chosen By God
"I have chosen you out of the world." --John 15:19
Here is distinguishing grace and discriminating regard; for some are made the special
objects of divine affection. Do not be afraid to dwell upon this high doctrine of
election. When your mind is most heavy and depressed, you will find it to be a bottle
of richest cordial. Those who doubt the doctrines of grace, or who cast them into the
shade, miss the richest clusters of Eshcol; they lose the wines on the lees well
refined, the fat
things full of marrow. There is no balm in Gilead comparable to it. If the honey in
Jonathan's wood when but touched enlightened the eyes, this is honey which
willenlighten your heart to love and learn the mysteries of the kingdom of God. Eat,
and fear not a surfeit; live upon this choice dainty, and fear not that it will be too
delicate
a diet. Meat from the King's table will hurt none of His courtiers. Desire to have
your mind enlarged, that you may comprehend more and more the eternal, everlasting,
discriminating love of God. When you have mounted as high as election, tarry on its
sister mount, the covenant of grace.
Covenant engagements are the munitions of stupendous rock behind which we lie
entrenched; covenant engagements with the surety, Christ Jesus, are the quiet
resting-places of trembling spirits.
"His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the raging flood;
When every earthly prop gives way,
This still is all my strength and stay."
If Jesus undertook to bring me to glory, and if the Father promised that He would give
me to the Son to be a part of the infinite reward of the travail of His soul; then, my
soul, till God Himself shall be unfaithful, till Jesus shall cease to be the truth,
thou art safe. When David danced before the ark, he told Michal that election made him
do so. Come, my soul, exult before the God of grace and leap for joy of heart.
Evening: Beyond Compare
"His head is as the most fine gold, His locks are bushy, and black as a raven."
--Song of Solomon 5:11
Comparisons all fail to set forth the Lord Jesus, but the spouse uses the best within
her reach. By the head of Jesus we may understand His deity, "for the head of Christ
is God" and then the ingot of purest gold is the best conceivable metaphor, but all
too poor to describe one so precious, so pure, so dear, so glorious. Jesus is not a
grain of gold, but a vast globe of it, a priceless mass of treasure such as earth and
heaven cannot excel. The creatures are mere iron and clay, they all shall perish like
wood, hay,
and stubble, but the everliving Head of the creation of God shall shine on for ever
and ever.
In Him is no mixture, nor smallest taint of alloy. He is for ever infinitely holy and
altogether divine. The bushy locks depict His manly vigour. There is nothing
effeminate in our Beloved. He is the manliest of men. Bold as a lion, laborious as an
ox, swift as an eagle.
Every conceivable and inconceivable beauty is to be found in Him, though once He was
despised and rejected of men.
"His head the finest gold;
With secret sweet perfume,
His curled locks hang all as black
As any raven's plume."
The glory of His head is not shorn away, He is eternally crowned with peerless
majesty. The black hair indicates youthful freshness, for Jesus has the dew of His
youth upon Him. Others grow languid with age, but He is for ever a Priest as was
Melchisedek; others come and go, but He abides as God upon His throne, world without
end. We will behold Him to-night and adore Him. Angels are gazing upon Him--His
redeemed must not turn away their eyes from Him.
Where else is there such a Beloved? O for an hour's fellowship with Him! Away, ye
intruding cares! Jesus draws me, and I run after Him.
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