HOSANNA YAHSHUA - Matthew 21:9
"Remember
me, O LORD,
with the favour that Thou
bearest unto Thy
people: O visit me with Thy
salvation."
-PSALM
106:4 [KJV]
How
is a man brought and taught to want to be "visited with"
God's salvation? He must know something first of condemnation.
Salvation only suits the condemned. "The Son of man came to
seek and to save that which was lost;" and therefore
salvation only suits the lost. A man must be lost— utterly
lost—before he can prize God's salvation. And how is he lost? By
losing all his religion, losing all his righteousness, losing all his
strength, losing all his confidence, losing all his hopes, losing all
that is of the flesh; losing it by its being taken from him, and
stripped away by the hand of God. A man who is brought into this
state of utter beggary and complete bankruptcy—to be nothing, to
have nothing, to know nothing—he is the man, who in the midnight
watches, in his lonely hours, by his fireside, and at times,
well-nigh night and day, is crying, groaning, begging, suing,
seeking, and praying after the manifestation of God's salvation to
his soul. "O visit me with Thy salvation."
He
wants a visit from God; he wants God to come and dwell with him, take
up His abode in his heart, discover Himself to him, manifest and
reveal Himself, sit down with Him, eat with Him, walk with Him, and
dwell in Him as his God. And a living soul can be satisfied with
nothing short of this. He must have a visit. It profits him little to
read in the word of God what God did to His saints of old; he wants
something for himself, something that shall do his soul
good; he wants something that shall cheer, refresh, comfort, bless,
and profit him, remove his burdens, and settle his soul into peace.
And therefore he wants a visitation—that the presence and power,
the mercy and the love of God should visit his soul.
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
May
27th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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