Christ is the Strength and Righteousness of His Redeemed people!
"I will strengthen them in the L ORD , and they shall walk up and down in His name, saith the L ORD ." -Zechariah 10:12 [KJV] My soul, mark these words, how precious they are; and mark the Speaker and Promiser, and consider how sure They are. Is not this God the Father speaking of the church, and most graciously assuring the church that He will strengthen the church in Jesus, the church's glorious Head? Is not this said with an eye to Christ, who is represented in another part of this blessed prophecy as calling upon the church to attend to Him, who is come to build the temple of the Lord, and to bear all the glory, and who expressly saith that the church shall know that He, the LORD of Hosts, is sent by the LORD of Hosts unto His people? Who but the LORD of Hosts could build the temple of the LORD of Hosts; or who but Him bear all the glory? see Zechariah 10:12 . So then, my soul, observe that Christ is the strength, as well as the righteousness of His redeemed. A