Christ JESUS goes before His people

"He goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see Him." -Mark 16:7 [KJV]

Mark this, my soul, in all thy goings forth; look out for thy gracious, glorious Forerunner, and see whether the same going before thee of thy Lord hath not been from everlasting. Was it not Jesus that was set up as the Head of His people from everlasting? Did He not then go before them, when He went forth for the salvation of His people? In the council of peace did He not go before them; not only before we knew our need, but before we had a being? In all His covenant engagements, as the Surety of His people, He went before them. And in all His offices, characters, and relations, He was preventing us with the blessings of His goodness.  

And in the personal salvation of every individual of His redeemed, was not Jesus beforehand in quickening, illuminating, redeeming mercy? "If we love Him, is it not because He first loved us?" And what is it now? Do not His mercies go before our prayers? and before we call, doth not Jesus answer? And will it not be so during the whole day of grace, even to the eternal day of glory? Precious Jesus, surely Thou art going before me into Galilee. Oh for grace to follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. And do Thou, Lord, walk with me, and talk with me, as Thou didst to the disciples in the way, and make Thyself known unto me in continual manifestations, and in breaking of bread, and in prayer. 

-preacher Robert Hawker (1753-1827 A.D.)
October 5th, THE POOR MAN'S MORNING PORTION 

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