Spiritual Pasture for God's Sheep
"I
AM
THE DOOR:
by Me
if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and
find pasture." -JOHN
10:9 [KJV]
There
is a finding pasture in providence. A sweet and healthy pasture
indeed this is to watch the Lord's providential dealings with us
spread through a long series of years. It is seeing the Lord's
providential hand which makes the commonest temporal mercies sweet.
Every nibble of grass or lock of hay which we can believe to be
specially provided for us by the hand of that good Shepherd becomes
thereby doubly sweet. But O what pastures in grace has God provided
for His hungry
sheep! Look at the promises and declarations, the sacred truths and
heavenly consolations scattered up and down the Scriptures of truth.
But of all spiritual pasture thus provided for the flock, the
chiefest is the flesh and blood of the Lord Jesus.
This
is His own divine
declaration: "For My
flesh is meat indeed, and My
blood is drink indeed" [JOHN
6:55].
And every communication of grace to the soul out of the fullness of
Christ, every promise applied with a divine power to the heart, every
truth which drops with heavenly savour, every season of
encouragement; in a word, every part of God's word which the soul can
eat and feed upon is spiritual pasture. Thus the prophet found it of
old: "Thy words were found, and I
did eat them; and Thy
word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; for I am called
by Thy
name, O LORD
God of hosts" [JEREMIAH
15:16].
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
JANUARY
12th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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