ealt with us, with each one of us individually. How wonderful
it is that He knows each of His sheep, that He guides each, provides
for, loveth, succors, stands by, restores, never leaves nor forsakes
each who has trusted in Him and belongs to Him. How wonderful are
His ways with us, that He guides with His eyes and that His loving
power and omnipotent love is on our side. In His coming
manifestation He will be wonderful. Wonderful He will be when we
shall see Him and stand in His presence. What a day it will be when
we see Him face to face! Then we shall know all the loveliness and
wonderfulness of His adorable Person and His wonder ways with us.
With what wonderment we shall then behold Him. And when He comes
with His Saints, when the Heavens are lit up with untold glory, when
He comes to judge, to establish His Kingdom, to speak peace to the
nations, to restore creation to its right condition, when He reigns
and all His redeemed ones with Him--Oh how wonderful it all will
be!
He is altogether lovely and he is altogether wonderful. Glory to His
name! Well has one said: "He pervades the whole of the New Testament
with His presence, so that every doctrine it teaches, every duty it
demands, every narrative it records, every comfort it gives, every
hope it inspires, gathers about His person and ministers to His
glory." So dear does He thus become to the heart of the believer,
that Luther may well be excused for exclaiming, 'I had rather be in
hell with Christ, than in heaven without Him.'
"We believe in Him as our Saviour, Acts vi:31; confess Him as our
Lord, Rom. x:9; we have redemption through His blood, Eph. i:7; we
look to Him as our Leader, Heb. xii:2; we follow Him as our Teacher,
Eph. iv:20, 21; we feed upon Him as our Bread, Jno. vi:48; we go to
Him in our Thirst, Jno. vi: 37; we enter by Him as our door, Jno.
x:9; we are in Him as our vine, Jno. xv:5; we find in Him our rest,
Matt. xi:28; we have in Him our example, Jno. xiii:15; He is our
righteousness, 2 Cor. v:21; we are succored by Him in temptation,
Heb. ii:18; we turn to Him for sympathy, Heb. iv:15; we obtain
through Him our victory, 1 Cor. xv:57; we overcome by Him the world,
1 Jno. v:5; we have in Him eternal life, 1 Jno. v:11, 12; we gain by
Him the resurrection, Phil. iii:20, 21; we appear with Him in glory,
Col. iii:4, we exult in His everlasting love, Rev. i:5, 6."
May the Holy Spirit fill our hearts and eyes with Himself and reveal
to us throu
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