GOD IS FAITHFUL!



"God is faithful, by Whom ye were called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord." -I CORINTHIANS 1:9 [KJV]

When God calls His people by His grace, it is to make them partakers of the highest bliss and the greatest glory that He could confer upon the sons of men. And this not only in eternity, but in time; not only beyond, but this side of the grave. He appeals, therefore, to them by His prophet. "Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness?" [JEREMIAH 2:31].

When the Lord calls His people out of earthly pleasures, is it for no other purpose than to lead them into paths of affliction and sorrow? Does He make them leave the fleshpots of Egypt to starve them in a waste howling wilderness? This was the complaint of the ancient murmurers, that Moses had brought them up out of Egypt to kill them with thirst [EXODUS 17:3]. Does He take them from earthly delights to abandon them to misery and despair? O no! He calls them even in this time state to the greatest privilege and highest favour that His everlasting love could confer upon them, which is no less than "the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord," that they may have union and communion with the Son of God by grace here, and be partakers of his glory hereafter.

God's dear Son is and always has been the object of His eternal delight. To glorify Him has been from all eternity His fixed, His settled purpose; and in pursuance of this settled purpose, He gave Him a people whom He formed for Himself, that they might shew forth His praise. Thus, therefore, the Redeemer addressed His heavenly Father—"And all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine; and I am glorified in them."

-Gospel report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
March 17th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES

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