LORD JESUS CHRIST ~ High Priest, Great Prophet & Soon Coming KING OF GLORY
“Thy
people shall be willing in the day of Thy power: in the beauties of
holiness from the womb of the morning: Thou hast the dew of Thy
youth.”
-PSALM
110:3 [KJV]
There
is so much of the Lord Jesus in this sweet Psalm, indeed it is
altogether so truly a gospel Psalm, that the morning portion, which
was a selection from it, cannot be better followed than by taking
another verse of it for the evening portion, that both together may
furnish out blessed meditations to my soul, in the contemplation of
our precious Jesus.
Here are views of Jesus, in all His
blessed offices, as the Prophet, Priest, and King of His people;
and every verse is more or less descriptive of His glorious person,
offices, and character. This precious portion for my evening thoughts
contains the promise of Jehovah the Father, in His covenant
engagements, that the Redeemer should see the blessed fruits and
effects of His undertaking in the hearts and minds of His elect
people.
“Thy people (saith the Lord) shall
be willing.” So then Jesus had a people before His
incarnation, and that people Jehovah engaged to make willing; willing
to be saved, willing to receive Christ, and own Him for their
Redeemer? Sweet thought of encouragement to the poor sinner! The Lord
undertakes to give the willing mind; so that this is enough to stir
the humblest to attend the means of grace, where Jehovah will make
Christ’s people willing in the day of Christ's power. And while it
furnishes encouragement to the sinner, it holds forth instruction to
the saint; the former can plead no inability, and the latter can make
no boasting; the willingness is of the Lord, and it is in the day
of Christ’s power.
My soul! thou canst subscribe to
this truth. The first awakenings of grace in thine heart, thou
knowest, were not the effect of thy strength, but the willingness
there wrought by divine power. But there are in this verse, also,
“the beauties of the Lord’s holiness” spoken of; “from
the womb of the morning.” It is indeed to see “the King in
His beauty,” and to worship in the “beauty of holiness,”
when the Lord's people are made willing in Christ's power, and
worship only in the beauties of Christ's holiness. And such, the
promise saith, shall be the fruitfulness of the womb of conversion in
Christ’s strength, when He seeth the travail of His soul, that, as
the dew-drops of the morning are incalculable, so shall be the
multitude of redeemed souls that shall “flee as a cloud, and as
doves to their windows!”
Precious Lord Jesus! rule
Thou as a King, the rightful Sovereign of Zion; subdue Thine enemies
to the sceptre of Thy grace, and bring every knee of Thy people to
bend to the rod of Thy power. And Oh, Almighty Father!, ever let my
poor soul praise Thee, love Thee, obey Thee, adore Thee, that Thou
hast fulfilled this covenant promise to Thy dear Son, in the instance
of my soul Thou hast indeed subdued the natural stubbornness of my
nature, and made me willing to be saved in the Lord’s own way. And
now, blessed Lord, I desire to bend the knee of my heart to Jesus,
and daily, hourly, ascribe the whole of my salvation “to Him
that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb that was slain, for
ever!”
-Gospel
report by preacher Robert
Hawker
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