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 will enlighten 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.
On this day...
- Romans 10 - 2024
- Romans 9 - 2024
- Absence of rationalization is one fruit ... - 2010
- The word confess means "to agree". - 2010
- I do not want to frustrate the grace of ... - 2010
- Mark 14:14 - 2009
- Song of Solomon 5:11 - 2009
- Count Your Blessings - 2007
- All He Touches - 2007
- Truth Is The Direct Pathway - 2007
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