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Psalm
89:19
I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
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Why was Christ chosen out of the
people? Speak, my heart, for heart-thoughts are best. Was it
not that He might be able to be our brother, in the blest tie
of kindred blood? Oh, what relationship there is between
Christ and the believer! The believer can say, "I have a
Brother in heaven; I may be poor, but I have a Brother who is
rich, and is a King, and will He suffer me to want while He is
on His throne? Oh, no! He loves me; He is my Brother."
Believer, wear this blessed thought, like a necklace of
diamonds, around the neck of thy memory; put it, as a golden
ring, on the finger of recollection, and use it as the King's
own seal, stamping the petitions of thy faith with confidence
of success. He is a brother born for adversity, treat Him as
such. Christ was also chosen out of the people that He might
know our wants and sympathize with us. "He was tempted in all
points like as we are, yet without sin." In all our sorrows we
have His sympathy. Temptation, pain , disappointment,
weakness, weariness, poverty-He knows them all, for He has
felt all. Remember this, Christian, and let it comfort thee.
However difficult and painful thy road, it is marked by the
footsteps of thy Saviour; and even when thou reachest the dark
valley of the shadow of death, and the deep waters of the
swelling Jordan, thou wilt find His footprints there. In all
places whithersoever we go, He has been our forerunner; each
burden we have to carry, has once been laid on the shoulders
of Immanuel. "His way was much rougher and darker than mine
Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?" Take
courage! Royal feet have left a blood-red track upon the road,
and consecrated the thorny path for ever.
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Song of
Solomon 1:4
We will remember Thy love more than wine.
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Jesus will not let His people forget
His love. If all the love they have enjoyed should be
forgotten, He will visit them with fresh love. "Do you forget
my cross?" says He, "I will cause you to remember it; for at
My table I will manifest Myself anew to you. Do you forget at
I did for you in the council-chamber of eternity? I will
remind you of it, for you shall need a counsellor, and shall
find Me ready at your call." Mothers do not let their children
forget them. If the boy has gone to Australia, and does not
write home, his mother writes-"Has John forgotten his mother?"
Then there comes back a sweet epistle, which proves that the
gentle reminder was not in vain. So is it with Jesus, He says
to us, "Remember Me," and our response is, "We will remember
Thy love." We will remember Thy love and its matchless
history. It is ancient as the glory which Thou hadst with the
Father before the world was. We remember, O Jesus, Thine
eternal love when Thou didst become our Surety, and espouse us
as Thy betrothed. We remember the love which suggested the
sacrifice of Thyself, the love which, until the fulness of
time, mused over that sacrifice, and long for the hour whereof
in the volume of the book it was written of Thee, "Lo, I
come." We remember Thy love, O Jesus as it was manifest to us
in Thy holy life, from the manger of Bethlehem to the garden
of Gethsemane. We track Thee from the cradle to the grave-for
every word and deed of Thine was love-and we rejoice in Thy
love, which death did not exhaust; Thy love which shone
resplendent in Thy resurrection. We remember that burning fire
of love which will never let Thee hold Thy peace until Thy
chosen ones be all safely housed, until Zion be glorified, and
Jerusalem settled on her everlasting foundations of light and
love in heaven.
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