Hail! Thou Glorious Almighty Mediator

"A nail in a sure place." -Isaiah 22:23 [KJV]


My soul! through grace, thou hast long been enabled to hang all thy grand concerns for eternity upon the Lord Jesus; and will it not be a very refreshing subject for thine evening meditation, to see how eternally firm and secure all rest, with an unshaken and-unchangeable confidence? Behold Him as He is in Himself, in His person, work, and righteousness; "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever."


Next contemplate Him as the source, origin, fountain, and support of all the great things of salvation. There is not a purpose of God, but is founded on Christ; not a promise, but is made, confirmed, and fulfilled in Christ; and not a dispensation in all the kingdoms of nature, grace, and glory, but comes from Christ and His own righteous government.


Go on, under a third branch of meditation, and behold Jesus as a nail in a sure place, and that the persons, concerns, and blessings of His people all hang on Him; from Him they derive all their spiritual strength, gifts, graces, authority, order, and appointment; on Him they all depend, for life, ability, power, and disposition to carry it on; and to Him the whole glory of their services return, in an endless revenue of praise.


Lastly, and above all, to crown thine evening meditation, on this nail in a sure place, behold the hand of God thy Father, both fixing Him there, and proclaiming it to the souls of His people; "I will fasten Him,"  saith Jehovah," as a nail in a sure place; and He shall be for a glorious throne to His Father's house." 

Hail! Thou glorious almighty Mediator! founded on such authority, and possessing in Thyself such eternal principles, evermore will I hang my soul, and body, and spirit, with all I have, and all I am or hope to be, in time and to all eternity, on Thee; for never can too great a stress be laid upon Jesus, nor too full a confidence be placed in Him. How can a soul perish that hangs on God's Christ?

-preacher Robert Hawker (1753-1827 A.D.) 

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