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daily devotional
"It is a faithful saying."
- 2 Timothy 2:11
Paul has four of these "faithful sayings." The first occurs
in 1 Timothy 1:15, "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation,
that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." The next is in 1
Timothy 4:6, "Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of
the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation."
The third is in 2 Timothy 2:12, "It is a faithful saying-If we suffer with him
we shall also reign with him"; and the fourth is in Titus 3:3, "This is a
faithful saying, that they which have believed in God might be careful to
maintain good works." We may trace a connection between these faithful sayings.
The first one lays the foundation of our eternal salvation in
the free grace of God, as shown to us in the mission of the great Redeemer. The
next affirms the double blessedness which we obtain through this salvation-the
blessings of the upper and net her springs-of time and of eternity. The third
shows one of the duties to which the chosen people are called; we are ordained
to suffer for Christ with the promise that "if we suffer, we shall also reign
with him."
The last sets forth the active form of Christian service,
bidding us diligently to maintain good works. Thus we have the root of
salvation in free grace; next, the privileges of that salvation in the life
which now is, and in that which is to come; and we have also the two great
branches of suffering with Christ and serving with Christ, loaded with the
fruits of the Spirit. Treasure up these faithful sayings.
Let them be the guides of our life, our comfort, and our
instruction. The apostle of the Gentiles proved them to be faithful, they are
faithful still, not one word shall fall to the ground; they are worthy of all
acceptation, let us accept them now, and prove their faithfulness. Let these
four faithful sayings be written on the four corners of my house .
Evening Devotion
"We are all as an unclean thing."
- Isaiah 64:6
The believer is a new creature, he belongs to a holy
generation and a peculiar people-the Spirit of God is in him, and in all
respects he is far removed from the natural man; but for all that the Christian
is a sinner still. He is so from the imperfection of his nature, and will
continue so to the end of his earthly life. The black fingers of sin leave
smuts upon our fairest robes.
Sin mars our repentance, ere the great Potter has finished
it, upon the wheel. Selfishness defiles our tears, and unbelief tampers with
our faith. The best thing we ever did apart from the merit of Jesus only
swelled the number of our sins; for when we have been most pure in our own
sight, yet, like the heavens, we are not pure in God's sight; and as he charged
his angels with folly, much more must he charge us with it, even in our most
angelic frames of mind.
The song which thrills to heaven, and seeks to emulate
seraphic strains, hath human discords in it. The pra yer which moves the arm of
God is still a bruised and battered prayer, and only moves that arm because the
sinless One, the great Mediator, has stepped in to take away the sin of our
supplication. The most golden faith or the purest degree of sanctification to
which a Christian ever attained on earth, has still so much alloy in it as to
be only worthy of the flames, in itself considered.
Every night we look in the glass we see a sinner, and had
need confess, "We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are
as filthy rags." Oh, how precious the blood of Christ to such hearts as ours!
How priceless a gift is his perfect righteousness! And how bright the hope of
perfect holiness hereafter! Even now, though sin dwells in us, its power is
broken. It has no dominion; it is a broken-backed snake; we are in bitter
conflict with it, but it is with a vanquished foe that we have to deal. Yet a
little while and we shall enter victoriously into the city where nothing defil
eth.
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