PRECIOUS LORD JESUS!

"Unto you who believe, He is precious." —1 Peter 2:7 [KJV]

We are loved with PRECIOUS LOVE; redeemed by PRECIOUS BLOOD; comforted by PRECIOUS PROMISES; justified by PRECIOUS FAITH: yea, righteousness, holiness, heaven, we have all by union with a PRECIOUS Jesus. Surely then, "to them that believe He is precious." Say, ye sons and daughters of poverty and affliction, is not this a time when friends grow cool and desert you? But in such a season, did you find one friend who visited you in your distress—was ever saying kind things to you—ever doing all possible good for you—when in prison, he sought you out, and set you at liberty—when sick he was your physician and healed you—when naked he clothed you—when in abject poverty he made you rich—thus was always pleased when he could make you easy and happy—say, is not this a friend of ten thousand? a friend who sticketh closer than a brother? Is not such a one precious indeed? All this, and infinitely more than all this, hath Jesus done for a poor wretched race of sinners. Therefore He is indeed to them, a precious "Friend, who loveth at all times: the precious brother, who is born for adversity."—Proverbs 17:17. 

 

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever." Precious in what He hath done yesterday—shed His blood for the guilty—wrought out a righteousness to clothe the naked soul. To-day He is pleading our cause before the throne, where "He ever lives to save to the uttermost all them that come unto God by Him."—Heb. 7:25. 

  

He is making love-visits, sending kind tokens, refreshing manifestations of His favor, causing poor hearts to rejoice in Him, filling them with peace and comfort through Him. O He is inestimably precious in what He is doing, and in what He will do; for Jesus will never leave one of His members till He has brought them all safe through a wicked world, given them the victory over sin, Satan, and death, and lodged their precious souls in the arms of His embraces; "for where I am, there shall all My servants be," saith our loving Saviour. O who can say how infinitely precious Jesus is to the saints above! This we must die to know. Though "now we know but in part, and speak but in part;" yet what we do see and know by faith, we can say, "He is precious indeed." 

 

However distressing our circumstances to sense and feeling, yet His eye seeth us, His heart of love is towards us, He is Immanuel, God with us. Are we sick of sin? He is our physician. Is sin our burden? He is our mighty deliverer. Doth the law accuse and condemn us? He is THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. Do lust and corruption rebel against us? He is our sanctification. Do the world, sin, and Satan, threaten our destruction? He is JESUS, our Saviour, our salvation; our ALL and in ALL—Col. 3:11. 

 

William Mason (1724-1797 A.D.) 


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