Wonderful LORD JESUS
"The stranger did not lodge in the street; but I opened my doors to the traveller." - Job 31:32 [KJV] Though Job was thus hospitable, yet we know that angels would have lodged in the street, if Lot had not taken them in. Nay, the Lord of angels, when He came a stranger upon earth, had not where to lay His head. He came indeed "unto His own, but His own received Him not." My soul, pause! Hast thou done better by thy Lord? Nay, thou hast not. And though thou knowest the precept the apostle had it in commission to tell the church, "not to be forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby," as in the instance of the patriarch, and others, "some have entertained angels unawares;" yet, my soul, how long did the Lord of life and glory stand without, knocking at the door of thine heart, by the ministry of His word and ordinances, saying—open to Me; yea, and would have stood to this hour, had He not, by His own sovereign grace, put in His hand by the