Our mighty High Priest, great Prophet & soon coming KING OF GLORY - JESUS!
"For
we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling
of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet
without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace,
that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need."
-Hebrews
4:15-16 [KJV]
What
heart can conceive or tongue recount the daily, hourly triumphs of
the Lord Jesus Christ's all-conquering grace? We see scarcely a
millionth part of what He, as a King on His throne, is daily doing;
and yet we see enough to know that He ever lives at God's right hand,
and lives to save and bless. What a crowd of needy petitioners every
moment surrounds His throne! What urgent wants and woes to redress;
what cutting griefs and sorrows to assuage; what broken hearts to
bind up; what wounded consciences to heal; what countless prayers to
hear; what earnest petitions to grant; what stubborn foes to subdue;
what guilty fears to quell!
What
clemency, what kindness, what longsuffering, what compassion, what
mercy, what love, and yet what power and authority does this Almighty
Sovereign display! No circumstance is too trifling; no petitioner too
insignificant; no case too hard; no difficulty too great; no suer too
importunate; no beggar too ragged; no bankrupt too penniless; no
debtor too insolvent, for Him not to notice and not to relieve.
Sitting on His throne of grace, His all-seeing eye views all, His
almighty hand grasps all, and His loving heart embraces all whom the
Father gave Him by covenant, whom He Himself redeemed by His blood,
and whom the blessed Spirit has quickened into life by His invincible
power.
The
hopeless, the helpless; the outcasts whom no man careth for; the
tossed with tempest and not comforted; the ready to perish; the
mourners in Zion; the bereaved widow; the wailing orphan; the sick in
body, and still more sick in heart; the racked with hourly pain; the
fevered consumptive; the wrestler with death's last struggle—O what
crowds of pitiable objects surround His throne; and all needing a
look from His eye, a word from His lips, a smile from His face, a
touch from His hand! O could we but see what His grace is, what His
grace has, what His grace does; and could we but feel more what it is
doing in and for ourselves, we should have more exalted views of the
reign of grace now exercised on high by Zion's enthroned King!
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C.
Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
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