The LORD is my Shepherd



"I lead in the way of righteousness."
-PROVERBS 8:20 [KJV]
 
How does the Lord Jesus—who speaks here under the name of Wisdom— lead His saints "in the way of righteousness?" By casting a mysterious light into their souls, whereby they see what the word of God has revealed, and shedding abroad a mysterious power in their hearts, whereby faith is created, to receive, lay hold of, and credit that which God has made known.
 
We may read the word of God for ever in vain, unless that word is made life and light to our souls; but when the Lord the Spirit, whose covenant office and work it is to take of the things of Jesus and reveal them to the heart, sheds a mysterious and blessed light upon those Scriptures which speak of Jesus as the law-fulfiller, as having brought in a glorious righteousness, and at the same moment is pleased to raise up faith and power in the heart to receive, credit, embrace, and handle what He has thus revealed, then by His own persuasive power He leads the soul "in the way of righteousness." And O what a wonderful way it is! that God should ever find out such a way, as to make all His people righteous, by imputing to them another's righteousness! It will be the wonder, the song of saints through all eternity; it will exhaust all the depths of their finite wisdom to look into these secrets of wisdom, love, and power.
 
Yea, the angels themselves, who so far exceed men in wisdom, are represented as "desiring to look into" these things, and therefore when the ark was made, and the mercy seat put over the tables which were inclosed therein, the seraphim were framed as looking down upon this golden mercy seat, representing how the height, breadth, length, and depth of these mysteries overpass even the faculties of the angels themselves.
 
-Gospel report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
June 4th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES



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