God's Marvelous Dealings with His People
" Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, D estroy it not, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for M y servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all .” -Isaiah 65:8 [KJV] It is blessed to trace our mercies to the fountain head, and to find them all folded up from everlasting in Jesus. What was it that preserved our whole nature when blasted and withered by the fall? Was it not because Jesus, the promised seed, was in it? And what is it that preserves every individual among the children of God during the dark season of their unregeneracy, but the same precious cause? He that looks on (and who is this but Christ Himself?) amidst all our perishing circumstances, by His powerful and all-prevailing intercession, commands the destroyer not to touch His people; for though in themselves loathsome, yet in Jesus they are fair and lovely. My soul, learn hence thy security. The whole cause for which thou wert preserved until called, and, when ca...