Shall we not worship too,
The Son of God, the Lord of love,
To whom all praise is due?
Up there they see His Face,
The Lamb who once was slain,
And in a new song praise His Grace;
Shall we not join the strain?
Yonder His servants still
Serve as their Lord commands;
Oh may we also do His will
With loving hearts and hands.--M. F.
The Fellowship of His Son.
"GOD is faithful, by whom ye were called into the fellowship of His
Son Jesus Christ our Lord" (1 Cor. i:9). A blessed word this is. By
nature the Corinthians were in another fellowship. The same Epistle
(vi:9-11) tells us what some of them were. Like ourselves by nature
they were in the fellowship of sin and death and in fellowship with
him, who is the author of sin and the enemy of God, Satan. But a
faithful God called them and has called us by the Gospel into the
fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord. If we have obeyed the
Gospel and accepted the gift of God we are brought through the Grace
of God into the fellowship of the Son of God. All believers are in
the same fellowship, one with the Lord.
But that is a truth and a blessed revelation far deeper than our
mind can fathom or our pen could describe. No saint has ever sounded
the depths of this wonderful call of God nor can God's saints fully
know what that fellowship all means, until the blessed day comes
when we shall see Him as He is and when joined to Him we shall be
like Him.
And yet we can remind ourselves of the little we know and through it
encourage our hearts. Faith loves to dwell upon the blessed Person,
whom faith alone through the Spirit's power can make a living
reality. And God, the faithful God, loves to hear His children speak
much of Him, whom He loves, the Son of His Love, the Lord Jesus
Christ.
Fellowship means to have things in common. And that is what God has
done. He has taken us through His Grace out of the fellowship in
which we are by nature, the things we have in common as enemies and
children of wrath and has called us into the fellowship of His Son.
And now called of God into this fellowship we have things in common
with His Son the Lord Jesus Christ. This brings before us once more
the old story, which never grows old, but is eternally new and
becomes more blessed the more we hear it. The Son of God, He who is
the true God and the eternal Life, came to this earth and appeared
in the form of Man. "The Life
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