Hallelujah - Christ Jesus' people brought in!
"The
king's daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is of wrought
gold. She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework."
-PSALM
45:13-14 [KJV]
This
is a beautiful description of the bridal garments of the Church as
the queen. The gold was to be wrought into her clothing, the raiment
to be of needlework, intimating that her robe of justifying
righteousness was wrought, as it were, as in needlework, stitch by
stitch; yet that every thread was embroidered with gold. Here we have
the thread of the humanity in union with the gold of Deity, and yet
each in such close union that the thread is but one. In gold thread
the beauty, the value is in the gold; yet how close the union. Gold
by itself could not be made into embroidery. So Deity cannot suffer,
bleed, or die; but humanity can in union with it. Thus, as our
blessed Lord went through the whole work which the Father gave Him to
do, His Deity, being in union with His obeying, suffering humanity,
stamped each successive movement, as He went through it, with all the
value and validity of Godhead. It is this union of Deity with
humanity which made the work of redeeming love so unspeakably
glorious, and so meritoriously efficacious. As Hart says: "Almighty
God sighed human breath."
It
is indeed a mystery; but "great is the mystery of godliness,
God manifest in the flesh." O glorious mystery!
"The
highest heavens are short of this;
'Tis
deeper than the vast abyss;
'Tis
more than thought can e'er conceive,
Or
hope expect, or faith believe."
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
January
30th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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