Christ is our Ransom and our Deliverer!
"If there be a Messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness; then He is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom." - Job 33:23, 24 [KJV] My soul, how precious are those views, in looking back upon where the first discoveries of grace were made. Moses never forgot the first visions of God at the bush; neither did Jacob outlive the remembrance of the first Bethel-visit of a God in Christ to his soul; and why should I? Hast thou not known this messenger, this interpreter, one among a 'thousand to shew unto thee' God's uprightness? Oh yes, Jesus by His Spirit hath shewn to me that my "God is righteous in all His ways, and holy in His works." When by the blessed discoveries which had been made to me in His word, by His ordinances, providences, judgments, mercies, like the poor creature described in this sweet scripture, when reduced to a mere skeleton, b...