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daily devotional
"Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine."
- John 21:12
In these words the believer is invited to a holy nearness to
Jesus. "Come and dine," implies the same table, the same meat; aye, and
sometimes it means to sit side by side, and lean our head upon the Saviour's
bosom. It is being brought into the banqueting-house, where waves the banner of
redeeming love.
"Come and dine," gives us a vision of union with Jesus,
because the only food that we can feast upon when we dine with Jesus is
himself. Oh, what union is this! It is a depth which reason cannot fathom, that
we thus feed upon Jesus. "He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,
dwelleth in me, and I in him."
It is also an invitation to enjoy fellowship with the saints.
Christians may differ on a variety of points, but they have all one spiritual
appetite; and if we cannot all feel alike, we can all feed alike on the bread
of life sent down from heaven. At the table of fellowship with Jesus we are one
bread and one cup.
As the loving cup goes round we pledge one another heartily
therein. Get nearer to Jesus, and you will find yourself linked more and more
in spirit to all who are like yourself, supported by the same heavenly manna.
If we were more near to Jesus we should be more near to one another.
We likewise see in these words the source of strength for
every Christian. To look at Christ is to live, but for strength to serve him
you must "come and dine." We labour under much unnecessary weakness on account
of neglecting this percept of the Master.
We none of us need to put ourselves on low diet; on the
contrary, we should fatten on the marrow and fatness of the gospel that we may
accumulate strength therein, and urge every power to its full tension in the
Master's service. Thus, then, if you would realize nearness to Jesus, union
with Jesus, love to his people and strength from Jesus, "come and dine" with
him by faith.
Evening Devotion
"With thee is the fountain of life."
- Psalm 36:9
There are times in our spiritual experience when human
counsel or sympathy, or religious ordinances, fail to comfort or help us. Why
does our gracious God permit this? Perhaps it is because we have been living
too much without him, and he therefore takes away everything upon which we have
been in the habit of depending, that he may drive us to himself. It is a
blessed thing to live at the fountain head.
While our skin- bottles are full, we are content, like Hagar
and Ishmael, to go into the wilderness; but when those are dry, nothing will
serve us but "Thou God seest me." We are like the prodigal, we love the
swine-troughs and forget our Father's house. Remember, we can make
swine-troughs and husks even out of the forms of religion; they are blessed
things, but we may put them in God's place, and then they are of no value.
Anything becomes an idol when it keeps us away from God: even
the brazen serpent is to be despised as "Nehushtan," if we w orship it instead
of God. The prodigal was never safer than when he was driven to his father's
bosom, because he could find sustenance nowhere else. Our Lord favours us with
a famine in the land that it may make us seek after himself the more.
The best position for a Christian is living wholly and
directly on God's grace-still abiding where he stood at first-"Having nothing,
and yet possessing all things." Let us never for a moment think that our
standing is in our sanctification, our mortification, our graces, or our
feelings, but know that because Christ offered a full atonement, therefore we
are saved; for we are complete in him. Having nothing of our own to trust to,
but resting upon the merits of Jesus-his passion and holy life furnish us with
the only sure ground of confidence. Beloved, when we are brought to a thirsting
condition, we are sure to turn to the fountain of life with eagerness.
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