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Daily devotions for 06-05-2005:
Devotion: Morning and Evening
Morning Title: A Dim Reflection
Evening Title: Glorious In Victory
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Morning: A Dim Reflection
"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: Glorious In Victory
"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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