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Daily devotions for 06-01-2005:
Devotion: Morning and Evening
Morning Title: Why Are We Different?
Evening Title: The Great Physician
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Morning: Why Are We Different?
"The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron." --2 Samuel 15:23
David passed that gloomy brook when flying with his mourning company from his
traitor son. The man after God's own heart was not exempt from trouble, nay,
his life was full of it. He was both the Lord's Anointed, and the Lord's
Afflicted. Why then should we expect to escape?
At sorrow's gates the noblest of our race have waited with ashes on their
heads, wherefore then should we complain as though some strange thing had
happened unto us?
The KING of kings himself was not favoured with a more cheerful or royal road.
He passed over the filthy ditch of Kidron, through which the filth of Jerusalem
flowed. God had one Son without sin, but not a single child without the rod. It
is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points like as we
are. What is our Kidron this morning? Is it a faithless friend, a sad
bereavement, a slanderous reproach, a dark foreboding? The King has passed over
all these.
Is it bodily pain, poverty, persecution, or contempt? Over each of these
Kidrons the King has gone before us. "In all our afflictions He was afflicted."
The idea of strangeness in our trials must be banished at once and for ever,
for He who is the Head of all saints, knows by experience the grief which we
think so peculiar. All the citizens of Zion must be free of the Honourable
Company of Mourners, of which the Prince Immanuel is Head and Captain.
Notwithstanding the abasement of David, he yet returned in triumph to his city,
and David's Lord arose victorious from the grave; let us then be of good
courage, for we also shall win the day.
We shall yet with joy draw water out of the wells of salvation, though now for
a season we have to pass by the noxious streams of sin and sorrow. Courage,
soldiers of the Cross, the King himself triumphed after going over Kidron, and
so shall you.
Evening: The Great Physician
"Who healeth all thy diseases." --Psalm 103:3
Humbling as is the statement, yet the fact is certain, that we are all more or
less suffering under the disease of sin. What a comfort to know that we have a
great Physician who is both able and willing to heal us! Let us think of Him
awhile to-night. His cures are very speedy--there is life in a look at Him; His
cures are radical--He strikes at the centre of the disease; and hence, His
cures are sure and certain. He never fails, and the disease never returns.
There is no relapse where Christ heals; no fear that
His patients should be merely patched up for a season, He makes new men of
them: a new heart also does He give them, and a right spirit does He put with
them. He is well skilled in all diseases. Physicians generally have some
specialite. Although they may know a little about almost all our pains and
ills, there is usually one disease which they have studied above all others;
but Jesus Christ is thoroughly acquainted with the whole of human nature. He is
as much at home with one sinner as with another, and never
yet did He meet with an out-of-the-way case that was difficult to Him.
He has had extraordinary complications of strange diseases to deal with, but He
has known exactly with one glance of His eye how to treat the patient. He is
the only universal doctor; and the medicine He gives is the only true
catholicon, healing in every instance. Whatever our spiritual malady may be, we
should apply at once to this Divine Physician. There is no brokenness of heart
which Jesus cannot bind up. "His blood cleanseth from all sin." We have but to
think of the myriads who have been delivered from all sorts of diseases through
the power and virtue of His touch, and we shall joyfully put ourselves in His
hands. We trust Him, and sin dies; we love Him, and grace lives; we wait for
Him and grace is strengthened; we see Him as he is, and grace is perfected for
ever.
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