AN EVERLASTING COVENANT!
"He
hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and
sure."
-II
SAMUEL
23:5 [KJV]
O
the blessedness of having a manifest interest in the blood of the
covenant, and thus to have a testimony that God has made a covenant
with His dear Son upon our behalf; that our names are written in the
book of life; and that Christ is our Mediator at the right hand of
the Father! What are all earthly blessings compared with this? What
are health and strength and riches and all the goods of this life;
what is everything that the carnal heart can desire or the covetous
mind grasp; what is all compared with an interest in the
everlasting covenant, and in the love and blood and righteousness of
the Lord the Lamb? What is earth, with all its attractions,
compared with an interest in the precious, precious blood of a dying
Jesus?
You
will find it so when you come to lie upon a bed of languishing and
pain; when the cold drops of sweat stand upon your forehead, and the
last enemy is about to grasp you by the throat. What will your
anxious strivings to have something and be something more than you
have or are,—aye, I may add, your successes,—what will they do
for you then? Only be so many ghastly spectres of the past to terrify
and alarm your conscience, to see what shadows you have been seeking
to grasp to the neglect of solid substance. But in that solemn hour
to have a testimony from God of pardon and peace, will make smooth a
dying bed, will calm all anxious fears, and will take you safe
through the dark valley of the shadow of death.
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
February
23rd, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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