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daily devotional
But who may abide the day of his coming?"
- Malachi 3:2
His first coming was without external pomp or show of power,
and yet in truth there were few who could abide its testing might. Herod and
all Jerusalem with him were stirred at the news of the wondrous birth. Those
who supposed themselves to be waiting for him, showed the fallacy of their
professions by rejecting him when he came.
His life on earth was a winnowing fan, which tried the great
heap of religious profession, and few enough could abide the process. But what
will his second advent be? What sinner can endure to think of it? "He shall
smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips
shall he slay the wicked." When in his humiliation he did but say to the
soldiers, "I am he," they fell backward; what will be the terror of his enemies
when he shall more fully reveal himself as the "I am?" His death shook earth
and darkened heaven, what shall be the dreadful splendour of that day in which
as the living Saviour, he shall summon the quick and dead before him? O that
the terrors of the Lord would persuade men to forsake their sins and kiss the
Son lest he be angry! Though a lamb, he is yet the lion of the tribe of Judah,
rending the prey in pieces; and though he breaks not the bruised reed, yet will
he break his enemies with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like a
potter's vessel.
None of his foes shall bear up before the tempest of his
wrath, or hide themselves from the sweeping hail of his indignation; but his
beloved blood washed people look for his appearing with joy, and hope to abide
it without fear: to them he sits as a refiner even now, and when he has tried
them they shall come forth as gold. Let us search ourselves this morning and
make our calling and election sure, so that the coming of the Lord may cause no
dark forebodings in our mind. O for grace to cast away all hypocrisy, and to be
found of him sincere and without rebuke in the day of his appearing.
Evening Devotion
"But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb:
and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck."
- Exodus 34:20
Every firstborn creature must be the Lord's, but since the
ass was unclean, it could not be presented in sacrifice. What then? Should it
be allowed to go free from the universal law? By no means. God admits of no
exceptions.
The ass is his due, but he will not accept it; he will not
abate the claim, but yet he cannot be pleased with the victim. No way of escape
remained but redemption-the creature must be saved by the substitution of a
lamb in its place; or if not redeemed, it must die. My soul, here is a lesson
for thee.
That unclean animal is thyself; thou art justly the property
of the Lord who made thee and preserves thee, but thou art so sinful that God
will not, cannot, accept thee; and it has come to this, the Lamb of God must
stand in thy stead, or thou must die eternally. Let all the world know of thy
gratitude to that spotless Lamb who has already bled for thee, and so redeemed
thee from the fatal curse of the law. Must it not someti mes have been a
question with the Israelite which should die, the ass or the lamb? Would not
the good man pause to estimate and compare? Assuredly there was no comparison
between the value of the soul of man and the life of the Lord Jesus, and yet
the Lamb dies, and man the ass is spared.
My soul, admire the boundless love of God to thee and others
of the human race. Worms are bought with the blood of the Son of the Highest!
Dust and ashes redeemed with a price far above silver and gold! What a doom had
been mine had not plenteous redemption been found! The breaking of the neck of
the ass was but a momentary penalty, but who shall measure the wrath to come to
which no limit can be imagined? Inestimably dear is the glorious Lamb who has
redeemed us from such a doom.
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